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Happy September! With Ernesto and Florence raining on parades, and someone's birthday coming up, it's feeling very first-fall-and-then-comes-November around here. But I'm actually looking forward to the change. It's been kind of an amazing summer so, I can't imagine what the next season will bring. Something either wondrously magical or horrifically vile. Who's to say?

I'm remembering what an old ex-boyfriend's mother used to tell me. "Never wear white shoes after Labor Day." I don't know why I always think of this, regardless of it being that time of year, because I don't even own a pair of white shoes. She made me very nervous. She was very Sicilian, very unhappy, had 14 cats and a Jewish husband who slept in his study "because he was allergic", and a voice that could pierce your eardrum. She had very specific ideas about lots of things. She also told me that I should always wear "hose" with dresses.