What’s your #1 priority tomorrow?
What can we accomplish in 24 little hours?
What do we want to accomplish?

What’s your #1 priority tomorrow?
What can we accomplish in 24 little hours?
What do we want to accomplish?


Of all the made-up days of celebration, I managed to miss Sep 29, National Coffee Day. Ironic, really. My coffee trail has been long and winding. Perhaps it’s fitting that it doesn’t end at a Dunkin’ or a Peets.









Someone had just informed me a week ago that the Yankee season was going badly.
This apropos my husband not wanting to be a Yankee fan “’cause they never lose.”
The Yankee – Red Sox matchup was on our set for less than a minute when we were greeted by a grand slam. [All numbers are approximate as I wasn’t fully attending.]
The Yankees had a 4-run lead quicker than you could say Jackie Robinson.
Any further information about the Yankees (or my husband’s Mets) will be gleaned from encounters on our street. I don’t expect to be following games or the fate of our home teams.
So far, so good.
120 million light years is a substantial distance, but it has the earmarks of home.
A hydrogen rich and people ready environment awaits.
Carbon is considered a life-building and sustaining mineral; “K2..” has that, too.
Bring your bathing suit as NASA scientists say there are oceans on K2- 18b.

Catchy music and novelty songs go hand in hand. The tune that starts off the comedy-detective series Monk is a case in point. Randy Newman (singer songwriter) is a funny man.
The Lawrence Welk rerun this evening featured The Music Man. This musical has its odd song when Prof Harold Hill cons the town with a capital P.
The show used lots of comedy songs in its choreography and programming. Arthur Duncan tapped loudly to “Milkman, Milkman keep those bottles quiet.” Larry Hooper was talented in The Auctioneer, a song I love because I can’t keep up with its lyrics.
The most unusual number was about Mme Lazonga and her dance lessons. Bobby and Cissy danced to it along with Mary Lou Metzger, Jack Imel, Ken Delo, and Anacani in this episode.
It turns out that this ditty was from a movie of the same name, Six Lessons from Madame Lazonga (1941). Jimmy Dorsey recorded it.
Such originality is always welcome, but I think Bobby outdid himself on the choreography for this one.

Breakfast is or should be a quiet and peaceful meal. To his credit, he didn’t utter a chirp.
What motivates you?

It turned into dinner-and-a-show at our local Starbucks today. All that buzz: very stimulating. I was motivated.
What profession do you admire most and why?
Writers of historical fiction have the patience and savvy of scientists. They unearth secrets from the past to share with us. It’s as painstaking a process as archaeology.
Only once the excavation is done does a narrative unfold. Wow.