April

April is a good month. We are to get April showers so May flowers can pop out and make the world beautiful. It is a month of undecided weather. I don't know if I should raise my windows, cut on the air conditioner, bring in some more logs for the fireplace or move further south.

It is a month for fools. April first is April Fools day. April Fools day came from Germany. It is a day when pranks and funny stuff happens. Have you ever known anyone from Germany that even had a sense of humor? I know a lot of fools came from there, but none of them were funny.

Germans don't laugh at much. I know, I am one. When we think of Germany, we think if Huns, gray meat, potatoes and Hitler. Not much funny there.

My German-side kin folks were from Ohio. Yes, it is true, I have Yankee blood in me.I have spent my life trying to live it down, but alas, I cannot. Therefore, I must admit it and suffer the indignation. My mother was a Choctaw Indian from Philadelphia, Mississippi, and met my father in World War Two. He was a blue eyed, fair German from Bucyrus, Ohio. I'm half German and half Native American. I tell people all the time, that every time I get drunk, I want to invade Poland!

I am a strange mix of people. When you add the Redneck upbringing in South Mississippi and North West Florida, you get a very strange mix of "other." I saw on my income tax form last week, that I could identify myself as an "other." I liked it, so I checked it. I would think that nearly all of us are "others." We are a nation of "others." We are others that came here to become Americans. "Others" built this nation. If they were "one thing" when they got here, almost all of their future generations became "others," except for the Eskimos. Eskimos don't mix with "others" too much. They tend to keep their bloodlines pure. They also keep their igloos and ice farms to themselves as well. I have never seen an Eskimos that wasn't "just Eskimo." I think it has something to do with not thinning out their blood, by mixing it, or they would not be able to live in the ultra cold ber. You gotta be tough to be an Eskimo. I don't think they want to mix with other people much either, with all that bad breath and all, it must be hard for the. Come to think of it, I never met an Eskimo that was funny either. I wonder if the American Eskimo's originally came from Germany. They could have crossed over on the land bridge that used to connect our two continents. But then they would have had German Eskimo comedy clubs and I'm sure they would have failed quickly, so it's probably best that they never mixed.

Yes, this is silly. But marking "other" on a Census Form and IRS is silly as other. Ain't we all Americans, even the ugly ones that got mixed up with others?

I say let's just put one thing on the forms, ....American. Then we can work on getting proud of that.

Just thought you'd like to know.............................