{"id":1149,"date":"2010-05-31T19:16:05","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T23:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2010-05-31T19:16:05","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T23:16:05","slug":"miscellaneous-happy-birthday-to-maybelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/miscellaneous-happy-birthday-to-maybelle\/","title":{"rendered":"MISCELLANEOUS: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MAYBELLE!"},"content":{"rendered":"

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MAYBELLE!<\/h1>\n

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I just want to wish my little mother, May Rose Salkin, a very Happy Birthday! Besides being my mother, she\u2019s also the former \u201cpoet laureate of Aspen,\u201d a retired English teacher (which is why I\u2019m always annoyed with bad grammar and pronunciation,) a water color artist, a New York Times-published poet, and still the funniest woman I know! (And yes, I have met Lily Tomlin.)<\/p>\n

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One of Maybelles's water colors; she usually paints flowers, but I especially love when she branches-out with special subjects like this Rhode Island lighthouse.<\/p><\/div>\n

Every time I go to NY for a month (which is usually three times a year,) people ask, \u201coh, you have to go see your mom?\u201d No–I don\u2019t have<\/em> to–I want <\/em>to! She\u2019s my mother!<\/p>\n

She\u2019s also the strongest woman I know. My father died eleven years ago, and she\u2019s continued on since then, without complaining, staying in our same house, and being content with whatever she\u2019s dealt. It does help that she gets to talk Mr. X a lot, who she\u2019s happy to say is her favorite person, (well, you didn\u2019t think it was me, did you?,) and has lots of people who care about her and check in when they can. And she has syndicated series that she\u2019s happy to watch repeatedly. And me to fight with every day!<\/p>\n

So, happy birthday, Mom! I\u2019ll see you this summer, so we\u2019re putting Brooklyn on notice now that the dynamic duo will be back in action then!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MAYBELLE! \u00a0 I just want to wish my little mother, May Rose Salkin, a very Happy Birthday! Besides being my mother, she\u2019s also the former \u201cpoet laureate of Aspen,\u201d a retired English teacher (which is why I\u2019m always annoyed with bad grammar and pronunciation,) a water color artist, a New York Times-published<\/p>\n

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