I promise to return to a serious existence now that the trouble makers from the North have returned to the snow-swept mountains of Transylchusetts and return to the low-key life we all lead here. There is a serious fund-raiser coming up next Saturday about which I will give the details over the weekend; Thomas Barker is organizing another fund-raiser for Equality Florida. But, it its important to announce well in advance that Twist will be throwing a huge party for Henrietta's 67th birthday on Easter Sunday, March 23 in the mid-afternoon. I don't want to give out any secrets, but we do plan to have a very special Easter Egg Hunt. (I'd like to have an egg roll like the one on the White House lawn, but I'm afraid of what might happen with so many of our customers on their hands and knees.) There is also a rumor--and I detest spreading such things--that Henrietta will, for the first time in 30 years, perform. The great lady is the most adored icon on South Beach, and it will be and honor for all of us to worship her.

Mr. Frog, by the way, is safe and back to ruling the garden. He winked at me when I left this morning.