No Business Like Show Business

Kurt asked if the cousin that looks so much like my mom, might not be Miss Meryl Steep. That is a fine guess, but I'm afraid it's wrong.

Meryl has long been a Sneed blog favorite and in fact, could be a distant relative of mine. This is something she has long disputed and that her lawyers have demanded that I stop saying. Since the order of protection has been renewed for another year, I have to limit my use of her name or image, for blogging purposes, so that's all I can say on that subject.

I am not comfortable identifying my cousin in this post, but suffice to say that it is no coincidence that I posted the picture at the top of the page. You might recognize the singer/actress pictured above with Mr. Irving Berlin. That is my mom in the lower picture, as she looked in the 1940s. The resemblance should be apparent. My dad definitely married up.

As a matter of fact, had my mom had called heads in the coin toss for who got the singing lessons when she and her sister were kids, my life might have been very different.



My buddies, Sneedlet One and Two were here this morning. They had to clean up after a particularly messy bout with the PlayDough.







And what's better than a good book? In a fitting tribute to their grandfather's super-coolness, both were dragged from our house screaming, "I don't want to go!"









Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong, sometimes just full of it, but always judgmental and cranky


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