Last night I attended Gotham’s Dinner Group meeting at Bobby Van’s.  The one word that comes to mind is – wow.  

    Entertainment, to me, has recently been dominated by an onslaught of prequels and sequels. “Young Sheldon,” the prequel to “The Big Bang Theory,” just ended it’s run. There is currently, “And Just Like That,” the sequel to “Sex and The City,” and “The House of Dragons,” the prequel to “Game of Thrones.”  

In the dog days of summer, I went to Montana to fish in the Madison, Yellowstone, and Beaverhead rivers. On the third day of amazing fishing my guide helped me hit the Montana Grand Slam and caught all 4 species in the Yellowstone watershed Whitefish, Rainbow trout, my first ever Cutthroat trout, and my personal best Brown trout.  All in the longest undammed river in the United States.  But this is not what got my blood racing.

Over the last couple of weekends I've been traveling the highways and backroads of NY. It's quite enjoyable on the back roads, passing farms of corn and soybeans in different stages of growth, the big swoops of numerous windmills, and the cows and animals serving our population.   However, on the highways, the amount of pieces of tires is astonishing. I stopped counting when I hit 100.   

I am presently recovering from my second, lifetime, case of Covid and the unpleasant experience warrants a cautionary blog.  Last Wednesday night, after burning the candle at both ends for too long, I ventured into the city for our annual rooftop (thank you Sylvie) New York Health & Aging Summer meeting.

Are you watching?With all due respect to Roger (and any other world-class swimmer Gothamites) I’m not sure that I would ever turn on the TV to watch swimming (or archery).

Rona’s blog last week inspired me to write this today. She spoke about getting checked up at her doctor for a skin issue that likely prevented something from getting worse. As I get older, I am very conscious of how the body becomes less resilient and more susceptible to the rigors of age and the environment we live in. I have been fighting blood pressure issues for longer than I can remember. I am pre-diabetic and could stand to lose some weight. I have been susceptible to kidney stones for many years, that I barely feel them anymore.

When my alarm rings off in the morning, I stir.   I am not a quick riser.  I need multiple taps of the snooze button before it is time to really get the day started.  Even then, I like my slow move, spending a little time reading, catching up on news, legal and otherwise – and admittedly, a little social media tour.