The end of summer? I’ve heard people talk about it for weeks even as the temperatures stayed up in the 80s.    For some, summer “ends” when school starts. For others, Labor Day or the end of rental season in the Hamptons (a New York thing) marks "the end."

I don’t like saying goodbye to my children.    They both live too far away – and they both enjoy coming home which I like very much.  

Mitch’s blog on Saturday influenced this blog. At what point do you change your consumer actions based on unacceptable service? And have you changed your own professional behavior based on your personal experience?  

So a funny thing happened on X last week.  At least I thought so. Daughter Marisa texted a link to a post to X by Politico's Jeff Coltin that included a pic of buttons a former City Council Member and State Senator from my home borough of Queens posted for sale on Facebook.

Does everyone want or need feedback?    I've been buying fresh bread from a local Italian bakery in Glen Cove for quite some time. The staff has usually been pleasant, saying the right things but often in a tone that indicates they work hard, which they do. I'm always nice to them and always leave a tip.  

I spend an inordinate amount of time on social media.

With the invasion of the Spotted Lantern Fly, the expression “ I wouldn’t harm a fly!” is being turned on its head.I am one who, literally, wouldn’t harm a fly.

3 or 4 times in the past month or two i had walked to the mailbox on my corner and sent out a few things only to find out they had never been delivered. Its happened multiple times. Is my local mail team screwing it up? I can understand if it happened once randomly but its been a few times that something wasn't delivered. Is my local mail team losing stuff? I have had to drive to other mailboxes further away. Not alot you can do in these circumstances.