Annually, I offer a rather short blog with a concerted purpose: a musical start to welcome the new year.

I recently found out that the COVID-19 pandemic has prevented many suppliers of Christmas trees from Canada from selling across the border.   So now we have spruce thieves - individuals that illegally cut off spruce tops. They work late at night, and use fluorescent tape to mark their trails into the spruce swamps, so they don't get lost on the way out.  

Are you aware that Gotham has a Hall of Fame?

Happy holidays..... Our children are all married with young families. One lives in Manhattan, one lives on Brooklyn, another in Alexandria, Virginia and another in Washington D.C. Getting everyone together has always been a challenge and it has been years since we were all together in one place.

The question, “how can we help you?” asked most often by Nancy Schess at Gotham meetings was directed a little differently as we closed a Gotham COVID Review a few weeks back. Those are Gotham's magic words.    

  We are big burger fans in my house. I remember years ago when my son was in middle school we even started a Long Island mother-son lunch tour to find the best hamburger on Long Island.

I have become obsessed with watching “The Crown.” It is the story of the current Queen of England’s reign. I first tried to watch it from the beginning, episode one, season one. But I quickly became a bit confused as who was who and I stopped watching mid-episode.  

(Saturday’s blogger’s commentary yesterday in part inspired this musing about the aftermath of the recent snowfall.)