Opinion

You only live once and once is enough if you do it right.

There’s cold and then there’s COLD.

I walked into the neighborhood bank the other day and there in the lobby, loading the ATM machines, were two guys with fistfuls of money, bricks of $100s, $50s $20s, a sight I’d never seen before, perhaps a signal from alternative reality that my chance at bank robbery was here, but then I saw the third man, his hand on the pistol in his holster, and so instead I walked up to the cashier’s window and asked for a couple grand so I can make New Year’s gifts to doormen at our building and Mitch the plumber and our cleaning lady and also to some deserving children.I know it’s pitifully small-minded of me but I enjoy walking around with a $100 bill in my pocket.

A lot of times in this line of work we are observers more than participants in anything, and yet somehow we often find ourselves ensconced in community efforts.

We’re past the “tiny papers” week - Halleluljah!

Whoopee!!It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.