It’s all coming back to me now
So you should know that I am not a “shopper”. I live in shopping mall heaven — I’m ten minutes from the Broadway Mall, 15 from Roosevelt Field and 25 from Whitman Shoppes — but I seldom go to the mall. I prefer to shop on line. And when I do venture into a store, I usually know what I want and buy it as quickly as possible. I’m not one to browse through stores just to see what’s for sale. There’s a local chain, Baked By Melissa , that specializes in mini cupcakes. They’re primarily in Manhattan. A few years ago Becca introduced me to their product - delicate little cakes, exquisitely decorated, very tasty. I walk past their shop on 7th Avenue whenever we go to the theater. Well, last week I remembered that they used to have a second shop on 7th, right next to the original shop, but selling gluten-free versions of all their cupcakes. The gluten-free shop closed, but the company continues to make a gluten-free version of their product. So I thought that gluten-free cupcakes wou
One of my high school/college friends marched with her sister in DC (my friend traveled from Florida to march) and I was with her in spirit. I was thinking strongly of going to the march in Seneca Falls instead of the march in Binghamton. I ended up going to neither one. Life is funny like that. (Organizers in Binghamton thought maybe 150 people would show up. It was more than 3,000, I understand. I read a figure of 10,000. for Seneca Falls, which is surreal.) But here's the thing (as TV Detective Adrian Monk used to say). This is only the beginning of a marathon. It is not a sprint with an after party after. And I don't know how many of those marchers realize that. I can only hope we can all keep up the momentum, each of us in our own little or big ways.
ReplyDeleteLocally I've seen in increase in political action groups with both long term and short term plans. We need to start now and keep it going,
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