After a day of writing and finishing up the first draft of our latest project, I am packing a little suitcase and heading for my mother's. I don't see her often enough, and so this year my Mother's Day gift to her will be an in-person visit. I'm going to drive up tomorrow and give myself some extra time to stop in a couple of those places that I always see and think, "One of those days I'm going to go in that shop!" That will be my Mother's Day gift to myself :-)

In the meantime...the political intrigue continues. Will she? Won't she? Should she? What if she does? What if she doesn't? Doesn't she know? One of my cousins thinks she's got an awfully smug look on her face and has something up her sleeve...we'll see.

So, I leave you with another good one from the incomparable Peggy Noonan, and she will explain it all and analyze it for us.

Damsel of Distress

hat tip: Lyric

Oh, and I have to throw this in. My warped sense of humor (and my age, I'm sure) made this the funniest line of the day:

Here's the first place an outsider could see the tensions that have taken hold: on CNN Tuesday night, in the famous Brazile-Begala smackdown. Paul Begala wore the smile of the 1990s, the one in which there is no connection between the shape of the mouth and what the mouth says.

Labels: Holidays, Political Observation