Do you remember The Invisible Man?  In that H.G. Wells book a scientist invents a way to become invisible.  Well today our youth oriented society has relegated many of my vintage to virtual, if not actual, invisible status :( Have you ever noticed how many people look through or just ignore you? Have you ever noticed how older people have adopted the counter strategy of leading with a headlight grin or big smile? Some say I have lost my filter, but truth be told it is my way of retaining visibility :)

I recently received two boxes of K95 masks that I ordered when the CDC advised to upgrade from cloth masks to K95s. Today the mandate in New York for masks indoors has expired and is not being extended. As we move to the hopeful next phase of COVID, we will all have to get comfortable with new realities — as we did earlier in the pandemic. And the recently-acquired masks?

“Spider-Man: No Way Home” has sold over $1.6 Billion in tickets worldwide. (without even a China release) It has sold $784 million in tickets in the United States and people are waiting anxiously to see when Spidey will be streaming.  

Friends, I’m ready for a new book.  Rona’s blog yesterday sent me thinking.  

A friend recently posted an interesting question on her Facebook feed. “Do you read books in hardcover? Paperback? E-book? Or Audio?” In one of the comments, she had added, “just answer honestly, no judgments.”   

Many in our tribe talk about “The Power of Gotham.”  

Workers doing renovations on a Scottish golf course made a surprising discovery -- a 95-year-old message in a bottle buried in a bunker. (Corey...the link to Sting's song please:)   The Golf House Club in Elie built in May 1875 and across the Blackness Bay from Edinburgh, said workers were making improvements to the fairway bunkers on the ninth hole recently when they found a bottle buried in one of the hazards.  

Before the Stoned Age, in my college Freshman year I met Stuie and we became fast friends.  I mean Hardy Boys friends!  We had so many incredible adventures which are not appropriate to describe in a Family newspaper (despite the fact that the Statute of Limitations has expired) :) We are original members of the Charter Syracuse University Bad Boys Club (pictured).  How bad?  How about carrying on with my sister behind my back!!!