We did not cut the line(a subject for another day) and Joanne and I received our second Moderna vaccination on March 7th and we are patiently waiting out the safe harbor, post shot period before re-emerging and being out and about! Thank you Dr. Carla Fry, your nursing student cadre and The College Of The Florida Keys for stepping up in the vaccina …
We are at a loss as to understand why Charcoal barks at some passing dogs and not others. She’s a little dog, but she packs a wallop barking loudly indiscriminately at big dogs and small dogs as they pass. Though not all dogs! Yes, she is territorial and she’s watching over us, but I can only imagine what the neighbors think. Is it the sex …
Cold beer on a parched throat Plopping down at day’s end A shaded beach nap A cooling dip in water A clever rejoinder A thank you The scent of a flower A welcoming smile Words of encouragement A loving relationship A creative moment An unmasked breath of sweet fresh air!
How often do people talk to us in code? They have an intention, but they try to cloud or cover it in rhetoric. A perfect example is the obnoxiously directing request “why don’t you?” In superficial code this means “I want you to do the following, right now!” Well, I’m fed up. I’m no longer going to play along. I’m either going to respond with an …
The definition of mailing it in is to perform a given task, duty or activity with little or no attention, effort, or interest in actually doing something, ie, doing it in a perfunctory manner. For example, a key player on the gridiron, the team star running back, “seems to be mailing it in this afternoon.” This is distinguished from a reporter e …
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I start this blog without any idea as to where it’s going or how it’s going to end... All I know is that I need to know what’s going on? Thank you Marvin Gaye for your inspiration and timeless plaint! Maybe that’s all there is and it’s for you to answer! What’s going on for you?
Joanne and I are above the 65 year old threshold to qualify for an appointment to get The Shot. We are on an appointment list and I’ve been on a vaccination appointment website twice too early in the morning to get on another list and I just called a special number to get on still another list. I even complained to the Mayor! So, despite our bet …
When did takeout food morph into takeaway? To me just because we are suffering a pandemic it’s still takeout. Is that what they call Old School? Am I not With It! Don’t we still just pull up and take It out of the store? Then there’s the question as to what It is. To me it’s food that we eat when I bring it home. Then there’s the question as to w …
I have made up a game which I play on Facebook. I post interesting, but obscure, photographs of celebrities or sports figures and my Facebook friends guess as to identity. If and when a person guesses correctly, I award a colorful Bingo! It’s participatory fun! Last week I posted a mid 20th century photograph of Norman Rockwell painting Marilyn …
Did you ever notice a circular scar on someone’s arm or leg? When I was young such scars were visible and common due to the mid 20th century need for smallpox vaccinations. To my knowledge such scars are not caused by a coronavirus vaccination. I am one of the people who seeks to be vaccinated. I just got on a vaccination list and can’t wait for …
2020 is finally over! Good riddance to an annus horribilus! It's a New Year! Hallelujah! Happy New Year! P.S. Keep wearing your mask and we will move toward the light and emerge safely and happily from this horrible tunnel!
Are you aware that Gotham has a Hall of Fame? As pictured, it is on our website and peopled by the annual recipients of our Networker of Year and Red Bandanna Awards. This year, Hot Spot Queens Group members Brad Scherer, Dan Schwartz and Lourdes Villanueva Hartrick were our inductees. Take a look at our Hall of Fame on the website (click on About …
Following up on Ben's blog of yesterday, we thoroughly enjoyed our annual Holiday Party Wednesday night and, as is tradition, the weather was daunting, ie, it snowed and snowed and snowed. So much so that it amounted to another silver lining in that the pandemic prevented a traditional in person festival and required that we party conveniently on Z …
Sometimes I remember my nocturnal dreams and the other night I remembered a sweet dream. It was about my dearly departed college roommate. I was somewhere with someone and he entered the room and I was SO happy to see him! Such good feelings welled up inside me! I told him I thought he was dead and before he could answer the dream ended. I can onl …
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