The thing that makes me most anxious is flying :(Not the fear of flying (crashing), but the days before agony of worrying about COVID, the weather, cancellations, delays or diversion.  The sleepless night before. 

We were staying at a new hotel in Woodstock New York. An escape weekend in the Catskills. The room was modern, overlooking a brook fed by a waterfall framed nicely in the room’s window. The television was a challenge. All the streaming channels were available - provided you had an account and remembered your password. For the life of me, I couldn’t find the traditional network stations or regular cable.

Covid has slowed down our attendance of concerts, theater, dance, opera, museums, and movies.  But, beyond television and music, books remain a wonderful way to explore the world and examine ourselves in the comfort of home. Recently, the New York Times celebrated the unique Book Review Section that began as a weekly insert of the Sunday Times in 1895.  Readers were asked to nominate the best books of the past 125 years.  Thousands of choices were made and a decision was made to only include one book by a given author in the top 25.

I have been trying to move to an almost paperless office for a while now. Prior to Covid, all of my court filings, were on paper. Covid changed that. Now all of my court filings are electronic. It has made the switch-over to a paperless file a lot easier.   

As is traditional I shared my top ten shows of the past year on my website commentary page.   Check it out for the details but here goes:

The prognosticator, see all - tell all, the seer of seers, the prophet, the forecaster, the futurist... is back! It's time for my predictions.   Just as a reminder, here's my record since 2007:

Ever since our boys were young we’ve decorated our hearth with Santas big and small.  As the years passed “Santas” became a hallowed, enjoyable family tradition with our grand kids replacing our now adult sons with me as the only constant.

My grandson, who is a few months shy of his sixth birthday, recently started playing Monopoly.