Out of the Closet
April 2nd, 2007In the words of the late Madeline Kahn as Lili Von Shtupp in Blazing Saddles -
Is it twue how zey say zat you people are … gifted?
(Lights go out, sound of zipper opening)
Oh. It’s twue. It’s twue. It’s twue. It’s twue!
And so yes, it’s twue, as Chuck Newton wrote, that I am ” … a mom, a lawyer, with teenagers, stuck at home.”
And it’s twue that I am betwixt and between, as my late father would say, on the issue of going back to practicing law. With a senior and junior in high school, I better figure out some way to fill the space between college parent weekends.
I do have the first few months of my son’s freshman year covered. It’ll take that long for the big suck machine, aka my wet/dry vac, to inhale the dearth of hair in his bathroom and for me to power wash his shower walls and under the toilet rim.
Still, there will come a time when even the melodic roar of my wet/dry vac will no longer cut it for me.
The question is, now that I’m out of the closet, do I have what it takes to dust off the license and launch?