IT SURE WOULD BE EASIER

with masks, I mean.

Earlier this week a former JAVA editor shared on FaceBook that her moods were as changeable as the weather. I thought it was a good analogy.

Come to find out, she gets that way when she's pregnant and that was her way of announcing it to her FB friends. It didn't take one of them long to decipher.

In Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles, I believe, he creates characters who put on different masks to indicate their moods. I like that. It cuts to the chase. By the way, I've found that women were not the only ones to be moody; it just seems they have the reputation for it.

But we all have been subject to not discerning a mood and as a result not being able to communicate effectively. It especially seemed to hamper some of my relationships with girls in high school. My not being able to read their moods. Probably because I had my own agenda. I was real good about that back then.

But even after a few decades after high school, my skills of observation though honed by experience, still would like to take a page from Bradbury and see people wear masks announcing their receptivity or emotional state.