YA SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION?

 I have been in this daze watching the events in the mid East with folks tossing out the Dictators and wanting democracy! It’s watching history in the making. Also realizing that social media and you tube has given these peeps a room with a view to see what the rest of the world is doing.

 In those countries the DIC-tator had all da money. These peeps made like 2 bucks a week! The women are brutalized and I am sure it will take more than just a government turn over to rectify that one!

Yet still these peeps run ragged with rocks and stones and toss them at a friggin tank! We all know ya can’t take a tank out with a rock and yet they continue to follow their dream of democracy.

Here we sit in America with all these freedoms and democracy and some of us are making 2 bucks a week? It was noted in Forbes magazine that there are 400 people in America that have all da money!

FOUR HUNDRED! Then there are da rest of us Mooks ~ they do say however, “da Mooks shall inherit da Earth!”

That poor woman that represents that scale of Justice is gonna be hunchbacked soon!

Look I am not trying to start a debate on Democrats, Republicans or what eva party du jour is out there. All I am trying to say here is that we need to have a sit down with these 400 people and have them crack into their fortune.

Regardless of what party is in, it all turns into a bad CYO dance. Boys on this side Girls on the other. The votes get all skewed because if your not on my side, I aint voting! Like friggin kids in the playground. So guess what ~ nothing gets done. NADA – ZIP! 

Who pays for this BS, US !!

There are some folks out there that do not think we are in a depression/recession, they are calling it a correction? Why – because they are da ones with da money !!

Now look, if you are fortunate to have a job and have some savings and are feeling a bit squeezed – Brava, good for you.

However for those of us that are unemployed or self-employed or singles Mom’s and Dad’s trying to make ends meet this shit at pretty.

In this country we love our celebrities and athletes.

Our Athletes are making 30 million and it now costs you $200.00 to take your kid to a game? Do we really need to pay Tom Cruise 9 million to make a movie movie?

Look me of all people certainly do support the talented and artistic endeavors of peeps but MINGA – create a pay scale will ya!

Gas prices, food prices. Gurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

By now we should be looking for alternative measures for fuel and then hiring all the unemployed to make it happen.

So maybe we need to get our ASS’es in Times Square or any Square USA and say, Stop, BASTA, ENOUGH.

Stop payin our taxes, I mean really now what are they gona do lock up half the country!

These peeps in the mid East are dying for democracy. Well ya betta watch what you wish for because before ya know it they’re gonna be all broke ass like us. Then the 400 people that have all the money here will move there and become King!

You say you got a real solution

Well, you know

We'd all love to see the plan

You ask me for a contribution

Well, you know

We're doing what we can

But when you want money

for people with minds that hate

All I can tell is brother you have to wait 

C'mon people now

Smile on your brother

Ev'rybody get together

                         Try and love one another right now

DON’T MAKE ME GET DA SHINEBOX !!!

 Great, now Da FBI will have a dacia on me  :)

Three Penny Opera

Has anyone been to the MET lately? If so than God Bless. Because if you have you – you either have more money than Palachi – know a guy – found a guy – or took a distribution from your 401k!

I happen to be one of those very eclectic peeps. The music I listen to varies from- Rock – Blues- Jazz – and Tango!! OMG, I loves me some Tango music…  I love fine art, abstract and yet I can kick back with the best of the blue-collar anywho’s…now that’s a friggin ART!

I despise pretension!!! I mean lets get real Folk’s, unless you were born in the Vanderbilt mansion, knock it off!!! Even Anderson Cooper has a sense of humor ~ well sort of???

Once in a while you have to take the stick out of your coulo! You might even enjoy hangin whit the little folk. Because basically you are just a Lolly Pop kid looking for height.

The world is tough enough, No? --- We are all connected by 6 degree’s of separation. Bet cha pissed off now!!!

And since the recession or depression set in it has made it worse! For me though, traveling around this country of ours – I think it’s worse in NYC.

Think of when your 401k was whole! You would drive thru Chelsea and pass all those foo foo clubs with the velvet ropes and see all those foo foo gurls on line with their little black dresses and their Gucci bags waiting to get in….

Well, ya still seem em, but now they are online with their little dresses, with their cuma-se-chama hangin out, their knock off bag and a sign that says, “ I will date for food and the Philharmonic!

However choosing your friends is way different than being born into your family!!!!

Hey,you know that show called the Locator? On WE TV…

This guy gets letters from people looking for their family’s that gave them up for adoption or friends that have lost friends..

I’m not talking about the lost boyz, that’s a whole other story..

I can see it now. I contact the guy from the Locator. Hi Troy, my name is Maryann Smith. I was adopted when I was 8 years old. All I know from my adopted family is that, they gave me up after I set a Nun’s veil on fire? But I have this desire to connect.

So Troy goes on DA hunt.

He meets me at the Bada Bing Club and says, “I found your family”!

OMG!!!!!!

Yes and I have a video of one of their Christmas dinners.

He plays the video, there are 7 fishes, zepolies, nuts, pastry, and my FAMILY.. They were reenacting the 3 penny opera.. Now rememba – this is an opera "by and for beggars!

So there’s my Brother singing Mack da knife!!! Then my sister starts cuttin hair!!!!! And my other Sister is dressed like a hussy from Berlin????????

IT WAS AMAZINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!

I looked at Troy and said – um – tell them you couldn’t find me!!!!!

But cha know what! Families are made up of the good, the bad and the ugly!  Whistle here!!!

My family has never seen an Opera, they don’t need to, they create their own drama. However, this does not make them bad people, or less than.

And those folks that feel that they would never want to mix with the likes of “those folks”! Most likely are covering up some type of dysfunction of their own, That’s why they hid in the orcastra pit!!

Look I have Champaign taste on a beggar’s budget! I loves me some Crème Brulee …However, I am proud to say that I still can crave a Devil Dog too~~~~

So here be da deal!!   Get off your high horse! ~  I always hated that statement!!! Lighten up !!!  See the good in people not what they are wearing. Love your neighbor – but don’t get caught!!!

And NEVER –EVER JUDGE ANY ONE.. ESPECIALY AN ITALIAN!!!

WE know all the judges any way~~~~~

UNKNOWN QUOTE

“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.”

THE FAT LADY HAS SUNG!!!!!!

LENT WITH THE OPTION TO BUY

Its that time of the year again when we are faced with one of the most tempting decisions.

TO PEEP OR NOT TO PEEP !! 

Ya know, those marshmallow things shaped into the form of a chick, with sugar all over it!

Its Easter time !!!  Quick find your bonnet ~ get ready for Da Easter parade.. Get your HOLY Chocolate now!  CHOCOLATE EGGS, BUNNIES, CROSSES – OMG !!!!

AND LETS NOT FORGET ALL OF THEOSE EASTER MOIVES –

The Robe – the Ten Commandments – King of Kings and Easter Parade!!!

This is the Christian celebration of the Resurrection of Christ .. Where did the friggin chocolate and Peter cotton tail come in?

And Lent !!!

Give up something you love for the 40-day period, symbolizing the Lenten season's return to simplicity and purity. It doesn't matter what you give up - cigarettes, chocolate, surfing the Internet - as long as the meaning of its absence holds significant value to you.

I was raised Roman Catholic but pulled away from many of the traditions of the religion. For me the Church is one of the biggest Corporations around. I believe that the word of God has been manipulated through the times to support  MAN MADE rules.

We even have our own city !!!! VATICAN CITY !!  Did u eva!

Why do you think spirituality has become so popular?

Everyone you meet today calls themselves spiritual!

I mean even if you go on dating websites under religion one of the categories is spirituality.

Since when did spiritual become a religion? I thought spiritual was something you were when no other religion would have you!!!

And has the Universe  replaced God?

I have a friend that says to me, Mare – don’t get pissed, give it up to the universe?

Give it love and defuse it! Karma will take care of it!!

Ahhhh here comes the Dalai Lama tail, hoppin down the wellness trail!!          WHAT !!!!

It’s hard to be spiritual when you are Italian !

I can see it now. 

Ding dong – who’s there?

KARMA!

Karma who?

Look open da friggin door before I smack ya!!!!

But here we are Lost in DA Bunnies. Lookin for Lent in all the wrong places.

Maybe it’s not even something tangible that you should give up?

Maybe you should give up bad behavior?

Or stop being a Nasty Ass!

Or maybe, just maybe try to be more tolerant!

 But inevitably you will find yourself in CVS or the grocery store on line starring at PEEPS and thinking – Hummmmmmmmm.

Maybe I’ll only buy one package?

Ok so the power of the PEEPS has taken you over – you BUY the friggin PEEPS!

Only to get them home and poke a few holes in the package and have to wait till the next day to eat them so they are nice and stale.

Now that’s LENT !!!!  WAITING FOR THE PEEPS TO GET HARD?

Which resembles sex – hummmmmmmm….

So all you Peeps out there that are so perplexed as to what to give up or if  you’re feeling like you are not being a good Catholic just sit back and ponder a bit.

If you need/want to follow the traditions of the religion then fine!!!

If you struggle with some of those MAN MADE interpretations, then just do the right things, love your neighbor ( as long as they are not married ) follow right action and if you really want to – just buy the damn PEEPS!

Food for Thought ~!

I had been talking to some friends that seemed to have many of the same issues in common.
The infamous – why is it so hard to meet someone who is? Here is the list:
• REAL
• NO BAGGAGE
• NOT A BULL SHITTER
• WHO CAN COMMIT
• And last: WHO LOOKS LIKE THEIR PHOTO

This was the litany of questions that were posed to me at dinner the other evening with my peeps.
When we walked into the restaurant (sans reservations) the Maitre’D for some reason decided to give us this private room. Hummmmm, did he sense something I was unaware of?
The food was ordered and the drinks arrived. The discussion got heated. 
I felt bad for the poor waiter because when he came in with the second round – he heard in a loud bellow: ALL MEN SUCK!
I looked up and said to him, sorry it’s GURLS night out no offence this has nothing to do with you. Then I realized he was Gay so I felt better.. Or perhaps he was thinking the same thing! ☺
The food & drink was abundant as was the frustration I was hearing.
Not that I am a Guru on relationships nor that mine is perfecto. But for some reason they thought I had some profound verbiage of the mystery of it all.
After listening to all the complaints and saga’s they then leaned to me and stopped talking!
Now I felt the pressure……………….. 
Hummmmmm, think of something Mare? Say something profound!

Out it flew like the pledge of allegiance. As if painted from memory!
I think this is a shared issue, a 50-50 split of responsibility.
WHAT?
OK, not saying your points are not valid but maybe you need to adjust your criteria of what you are looking for. It seems like they are all the same types? If you are gona go after that gym rat type you have to know that he loves himself more than he can you! His protein shakes have more meaning to him than your phone call.
Also when you are 40 how can you expect people not to have baggage?
However, it’s what they do with that baggage, no? Have they gone to counseling to try to understand their issues and patterns and have any of you done that as well?
I think if you are looking for a guy that is 40 years old and has not been married & divorced and has no children, well????
First check your own selfish meter!
Everyone has a past and if the guy is taking care of his kids that shows that he has character and is responsible! Not a bad quality!

Now the food & drinks are in full swing. I was getting so nervous with all the mayhem, I was eatin like Trailer Park Barbie at a Vegas buffet.

Now back to the waiter – I could see that he would try to judge the lull of the conversation prior to comin in!!!

I did feel bad for one of the gurls as she just got engaged. So she was adamantly saying, look I have been thought my frogs and the cheaters and the drama but I am soooo happy now. It took a long time to find what I have.
Brava gurl – stand up for the good of love & romance.

And the War story’s continued.

So I said look, I once had a date with a midget!
WHAT ?????
YUP!
WHY? ARE YOU INTO THAT?
WHAT? NO !!!!!

I was online and saw this photo – WOWOWOOWOWOW.. Now you all know I am a tad dyslexic so I thought it said 5’4 but it was 4’5. Even though 5’4 was short I thought I could wear flats… ☺
Now I didn’t even know this until I set the meeting up. I was at a bar in Long Beach and I told him that a friend of mine just had a break up so I would not be able to really hang, just say a quick hello.. I just love my instincts….
I was at the jukebox and was pickin some tunes when all of a sudden I hear this high-pitched HI?
The first thing I thought was, Man I must have shitty speakers I never heard that in this song before?
Then I heard it again!
I turned to the left and looked down and there was da munchkin. OMG !
I shook his little hand and saw my friend at the bar laughing uncontrollably.
I then said look, my friend is crying again. Give me a call, gotta go.

Or what about the guy that had 2 cell phones, one for his primary gurl and the other for his Gumada’s.

Or the one’s that are really good at fallin in love for like 2 months!!!

Or the ones that are bi-polar and manic! At least you feel like you are dating several people at one time! Ahhhhh, the male version of Cybil. 
It has its pluses, you can say Louie I don’t want to talk to you bring back the nice one….

Or the Facebook stalker who follows your recent activity like a friggin GPS, then after a week calls you on it. !!

Or the we broke up again and went back last week! AGAIN.

STOP THE INSANITY!!! OK OK !!!!!!!!!!

So your not happy in the land of single mingles! You bought the ticket to the Emotional Roller Coaster of Love, but now you are not even sure if you’re tall enough to be on the ride!
It’s Saturday night, date night USA and you don’t want your friends to think u don’t have a date so Mista Loser calls and you say, YES!!

Or the worse, I went back with my EX – UGHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Look when someone shows you their true colors the first time, believe them!! Because it is what it is!!!

Please let go of the, “I KNOW I CAN CHANGE THEM – BECUASE YOU CANT!”.

There are some really wonderful people out there that you will never give a chance to because they DON’T FIT YOUR PRECONCEIVED NOTION OF WHAT YOU HAVE IMAGANED YOU NEED!

To prove my point, I went into a deli today to order a sandwich. The counter gurl took my order and proceeded to continue her conversation with the counter boy. She said, why are all these loser guys attracted to me? I mean I attract them like a magnet, why?

OMG! It’s everywhere I go.
Look, the law of attraction! YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT!
You are attracting them!!! Hello …….
I am not telling you to go out with someone that is unattractive to you. However, there are so many really nice dudes out their that are just not Gangsta’s so why not take a chance. What are you afraid of? Maybe you will actually fall in love wit someone that adores you rather than you always being in this state of Drama.

I think it’s time we –STOP NOW , WHATS THAT SOUND EVERYBODY LOOK WHAT GOING ROUND!

CHANGE YOU – NOT THEM !!! I have always said if you find yourself doing the same things everyday looking for different results, SLAP YOURSELF NOW !!!

All this is easier said then done. It’s all so simple on paper. The rules of engagement are much more challenging.
Don’t settle for Mista wrong or Mista in the meantime. The same goes for you Guy’s as well.

As for Me, I’m Jiminy Cricket, always looking for the silver lining…


The one thing I am certain of is it that the term,
”FOOD FOR THOUGHT!” MUST HAVE BEEN CREATED BY AN ITALIAN !!!!
Who else would use the word FOOD and THOUHGT in the same sentence..!!

Da Love Boat

Exciting and new ~ come aboard we’re expecting you!

Where is Julie the cruise ship director when you need her!!

We are indeed living in some whacked out times. The economy, da weather, so high tech that I can google earth your ass and find out where are.

Yet the oldest thing in the world is still the hardest - L O V E …

I have a friend ( whom shall remain nameless ) that is always in some kind of drama or in flux.

The people she meets all lie. Now come on peeps, why would you put up a photo of you that was taken 10 years ago? This includes da Women too!

What happens when someone wants to meet cha?

Why lie and pretend you are not married?

Oh I see, you wanna get a little !!!   Minga….

What happened to that magic moment when you meet someone across a crowed room and fall deeply  love. I’ll tell ya what happened! The room’s aint that crowded any more and the room was replaced by your computer. Ahhhhhh High-Tech love…  Skype me Baby….

Now look I am a huge fan of the Internet and all it has to offer. I even met my Honey on da net. However at some point when you finally get dat Face to Face with your potential new lover all of a sudden da thrill is gone?

Your imagination and the fantasy of it all can be so intoxicating that you are lead into a drug induced feeling of Loveness. But da face to face snaps your ass right out of it and you then find yourself on dat roller coaster doing a downward spiral. You’re sayin – do I meet the height requirement for this ride?

At times my friends have even said, well yeah I met him and I did not have that – ahhhhhhhh connection but I think I need to give it a little time. Before ya know it, da holidays are coming and you think well – I’m just gonna give it a little more time. WHY!!

Sometimes the holidays came make you do some dumb things! Like stay with someone you met at Halloween just because the season is on the way.

Lying - restraining orders – Oh My ~~~ and so it goes !!!

Whether you are the Hunter or the Huntress, Da Goombah or da Gomada -speak the truth! Dare to be different.

Meeting people is hard enough. Let alone going on the quest to find the love of your life.

If you’re lucky you can see through al the shit by the 2nd date. Sometimes it takes 6 months before you can see through the shit.

Stats prove that people can change their behavior for 6 months then after that they will go back to who they really are.. When someone shows you their true colors the first time, believe them. It is truly what it is.

We all have enough drama do we really need someone else’s? And don’t fall into that “ I don’t wana be alone BS!” Because after 6 months when u are having morning coffee and you look at the Mook across the table you will wanna beat your own ass with a stick..

Here is the road map of what to look for….

Someone who is present!

Someone that can give you love, mutual respect and who is considerate.

Someone that supports who and what you are.

Someone that knows a relationship means compromise and finding the middle of the road.

Someone you don’t settle for.

Someone you don’t have to fix or change, cuz guess what? Ya Can’t!

Now that you have a lot to bring to the table and that you deserve to feel all that passion and fire.

Look for understanding instead of miscommunication and frustration. Instead of friction and competition have mutual support and cooperation.

Continue to keep your heart open and hold on to an optimistic view of the future.

“For true partnership is achieved only by separate and whole beings who retain their separateness even as the unite. Remember to let the winds of Heaven dance between you”! So says the Rune of partnership.

Get back what you give and give what you get back. All that just to say balance and respect.

Once you have all that, the Passion, romance and spontaneity go hand and hand.

So promise yourself that you will no longer fool yourself with your own enchantment and expectation but be more vigilant in your quest.

Now isn’t that RomanticJ 

So hang on to your Hat’s kid cause Valentine’s Day is right around da corner. Ahhhhh da pressure of it all… Your crew asks you~   you gotta date?

 You think OMG what if I am alone on Valentines Day!!

Look the last thing you want to do is settle for da Mook who asks ya out and then have that tortured decision to make!

Ok if he buys me a really nice gift do I haf’ta BANG him?

BETWIXED ~ BOTHERED & BEWILDERED

Lately I think the Moon & Stars are all out of whack! So many friends have been sharing with me their relationships issues or saga’s or patterns.
What the hell is wrong with people? Look if ya wanna get laid just say so. But don’t do the relationship dance and then 3 months later turn into Da Mook you always were.

A friend told me after a year into her relationship they were talking about their future, marriage. Then he tells her I am not sure I want to get married. I was married before and I don’t like being told what to do and when I can do it! Hummmm. So she says, so what does that mean for us?
He says, well we can still be together, I have friends that live separately in other parts of the world and are married.
Really she says, they why have I never met them? 
Look its pretty clear that this Mook wants you when he wants you and dats, Dat !
Intimacy issues – Run Forest run !~~~

Then I meet one of my niece’s new Boy toys at one of my shows. The second I met him I knew something wasn’t right! It was like I saw a hat on his head that said “someum aint right!”. We say hello, she says Nada, then she says, he looks kinda Guido like, huh! I looked at him and said yea, you do but I will reserve what I really feel about you after 2 months.. Thank God I did not have to have that conversation, he is already dust! 

Then another friend was telling me about her bi-polar and manic Honey. Two days off and 4 days on. That’s like datin a Mormon. Why, why , why !! DO YOU REALLY NEED THIS!
You’re a fun person, spontaneous and loving – do u need a bat to make u see this!
Look if the meds aint workin and the Shrink aint helping – RUNNNNNNNNNNNN, Now.

Why do we do this? We do this for -Connection! Love, Romance and the need to partner. 
Some peeps are lucky, they get it right!! God Bless.
But some peeps keep choosing the wrong people and that just plain sucks!
They don’t do it on purpose it just happens or perhaps we believe so much in romance that we think we can make it happen.
Alfred Lord Tennyson said, “Tis better to have loved and lost. Than never to have loved at all.”
This I believe to be true! I keep telling my friends to chant this so that they do not get tainted or bitter, ewwwww there is nothing worse than bitter.
I know when you are a believer it is hard to let go but there comes a point where you just have to.
I know, how many more lessons are there to learn.!
Hey, don’t ask me I sucked in school! 
All I know is that you need to Love you, let go and move forward. I believe there is a reason for everything and a reason to believe.
I am going to share with you not only a little secret but a statistic as well. If you wanna give yourself 6 months with Jimmy 2 times, fine! HOWEVER, here be da Stats – When it comes to behavior peeps can do anything for 6 months after that they will turn into the friggin Mook they always were and then you are trapped because u let go and let love in. The short of this is you are now screwed across the board.
So hold back a tad and watch and observe because when someone shows you their true colors the first time, believe them- cuz that what they are.
So trust your instincts and if they really suck, just get laid and go home!
But trust me – it will come when you least expect it!
Worse case marry da Mook if he has money then find a boy toy and then 2 years later, DIVORSE HIS ASS!
AHHHH – RECIPROCITY !!

In the name of Love

I was inspired to write this piece by a friend whom is having a singles mixer. I think she is doing a great thing. However, I would call it HOOK UP FOR THE HOLIDAYS! There are so many wonderful people out there looking for the Love of their life. Looking for people sans baggage! Look at this stage of the game you should just be happy if they have a messenger bag and not a trunk..

But I am a believer in believing! I believe that your Love is out there if you just have the patience and the faith to believe!!!! So here it goes…

Oh my God! I am so happy! I can’t believe it. I never thought I could feel this way. I am so much in love ~ ~ ~ ~ AGAIN?

How does this happen? I mean at times I suppose that people can misrepresent them selves. But at some point we have to take responsibility for being married to the fantasy. And stop loving the fiction but rather realizing the facts.

You find yourself going from one disaster relationship to another. And you even fool yourself into believing that you learned from the last one. So you create this façade of wisdom attached to your decision, just so your friends will support your madness.Friends are great like that. Even if they think you are out of your mind they will say. O M G – I am soooo happy for you. Then they will call all your mutual friends and say – OK – are ya ready? She’s in love again!!Yup and he has all the same qualities that all the rest did…

Now don’t get me wrong. It’s not wrong to want to be loved and share your dreams and passions and have a partner that you can build a life with.But it can’t be with everyone you meet. And it can’t be with people that need fixing and it can’t be with dysfunctional addictive personalities.

As Sonny from a Bronx Tale said” You have three great one’s in your life”! Your first love, just so you have an expectation of things to come. Your second, because now you really know how to make love and have an understand of the meaning of dysfunction.And you’re third, because you have the wisdom from your past to know that this one will count!Actually, I paraphrased! Sonny said something like that.

And how many people take the time to really get to know someone anymore? I believe it’s a lost art! And yet how many times do you hear, it was fine when we first met. But after a while I started seeing all these things?. Even when we see a red flag we can turn it into mauve.Perhaps if you took the time to really get to know someone you would not always wind up in a place where you are hurt or disappointed or worse -devastated.We just jump right in and like 6 weeks later while you are having coffee with Mr. Goodbar- you look and say ~ ~ what the hell am I doin with this mess??? O M G …….

Is your motive a lust driven proposition? Which by the way is fine if that’s what you want.Or is it that you just want that Magic & Passion so badly that you make everyone you meet be THE ONE~

Let me correct one thing, it’s very difficult to be devastated. A person that is not a whole entity cannot devastate you. We’d have the option to say, “no thanks”! But we let the externals or the physical manipulate the internals and then create our own non- reality.

And why would we do that! Well, perhaps we feel that we do not deserve to be happy! Nah, that’s not it. Or perhaps we feel that we can always fix them and make it better? Ahhhhhhhhh….

Look - It’s like shopping at a designer outlet and going to the rack that has slight imperfections. You think, Hummmm – If I did this or accessorize with that, this could work…..You’ll miss the bigger picture. When someone shows you their true colors the first time, believe them.Slight imperfections are exactly that! At some point someone will say, “OH-you have a tear in your sweater!”And you always say, “Really? Gosh – how’d that happen?” 

I understand that Tommy and his shine box might be HOT! But do you want to be married to Da Mob?I understand that the Holidays ,any Holiday also can make you have bad judgment as well ~ ya know - The Tree, the lights, the tinsel, the BALLS - Yikes…. Before ya know it your bringing home the guy that sold ya the tree. Um – Ma, this is – what’s your name?

Is this just a GURL thang?

Or do Guys go threw this? Hummm – I wonder?I can hear it now..

Yo Tony – I am so confused, this chick is makin me nutz, I feel so exposed and I am not sure if she really is committed to me? Why am I so vulnerable?Yo Bobby – look this all goes back to when you was a kid!Memba your Ma used to take the Cannoli away from you before you could finish it? She played all dese mind games wit chew and now you don’t trust any woman. Minga. I really think she loves ya!

Maybe is it just the Women! Maybe we’ve been disillusioned; maybe we have been fed a host of propaganda. Maybe we bought into the commercialism of love.

We are the ones who believe in all those love stories. “Splendor in the Grass”, “An Affair to Remember”, “The Way We Were”…And for the longest time I am sure some of us believed Lesley Ann Warren really was Cinderella….

Ya gotta believe that your GREAT ONE is out there. But I mean really believe it. 

Now look if Jimmy” 2 times” does show up at your door with some wine and cannoli’s don’t close the door in his face.I mean ya don’t have to marry him – just leave the gun and take the CANNOLI!But don’t make a habit out if it!!!Or maybe it’s premature imagination !!!