iOS app Android app More  Cheryl Carlesimo  Cheryl Carlesimo
Posted: February 19, 2011 05:10 PM  Every Presidents' Day
holiday, I go through the same confusion of trying to figure out
how they pick the date. It's not Lincoln's birthday, or
Washington's, but it is definitely closer to our first president
so I guess that's my answer. That old seniority thing. This
year, we had a brief moment of spring weather here in the East
and it turned my thoughts away from eternal snow to having a
cookout and grilling burgers, of course.  Burgers just seems to
make people feel better. I always think of that great line from
Norman Lear's brilliant and hilarious series, Fernwood Tonight.
In the show, Susan Cloud, the owner of the Butterfly Deli and a
convert to vegetarianism, had one credo:  I don't like to eat
anything that under different circumstances might eat me. Except
hamburgers, Because the human body requires burgers. - Susan
Cloud, Fernwood Tonight.  When I was a film student in the Art
School at Yale in 1977, my