Maybe I will get a tattoo
If a nice, smart and matronly (and I mean that as a compliment) woman like Carol Marin has a tattoo, then I must be the last girl on the block not to have one. So what’s stopping me? Indecision?

• How about the von Huben family crest? Too complicated - probably too painful. And I have trouble committing because I really am a Smith, even if I am the mother of a lot of von Hubens. We thrashed through the whole name thing before marriage, and I’m OK with it. But I don’t know if I want my ‘new’ name inked on my body....even if I’ve been using it since 1978.
  
• An I Love You Raggedy Ann heart? That’s an idea left over from my teens. Best left behind with dotting my i’s with little hearts. Also, a painful location
  
• A snake with Don’t Tread on Me? Honest, but a little too edgy. And it probably wouldn't be visible to the people who would most need the information.
  
• Something in Latin? Chuck suggest Sic semper tyrranis, as usual. So Eddie suggests Cogito, ergo sum. All I can envision is being disrobed in a locker room, ER, etc. and someone thinking to herself, “Oh, yeah, she was thinking when she did that!”
  
• A flower? I don’t know.
  
• A bug? Bridget has a bee, so I don’t want to rip off her idea.
  
• A comet? My sister has one. Ditto on the rip off.
  
• A rainbow? I used to do a lot of rainbow motif things.......now I think it’s too associated with the ‘gay agenda.’
  
• Something religious? Too hard to do it and maintain a respectful attitude. I’m thinking Anna Nicole Smith’s Our Lady of Guadalupe calf thing here......
  

Well, I’m sure the tattoo parlors are all closed now so I don’t have to come to a decision......