Coop Scoop: Year-End Salute
2022 Can't be worse!
Ladies and Gentlemen, Comrades and Friends:
Merry Freakin’ Christmas! Happy Holidays and all that jazz. We have to hope that 2022 will be better than 2021. And we have to work hard to make sure that’s true.
I’ve been trying to reset and recharge the past few weeks as I was feeling emotionally abused by following the news so closely these last 5 years and especially the last two.
A sojourn in Hawaii and some lounging in Costa Rica has helped me restore. Gonna coast for a few more days through Christmas and then will be picking up the virtual pen again and joining the fray. So, again, happy holidays and will be back very soon.
A winter greeting from my 2017 trip to Iceland:
Merry Christmas to you, Marc. A little story for you. As a freshman at NYU, some years ago, my daughter was placed in a new dorm on 14th Street. First week and already the bathroom drain in her roommates’ suite was backing up, with shit oozing into their tiny kitchen. Many problems with that new dorm were to come. As a sort-of-a tiger mom I guess, I called the dean of students to complain. The man had just moved from Oklahoma to take this new job, he told me, and then he said—I will never forget his exact words—“all these 14th Street problems! This has been the worst week of my life!” The day we spoke was September 5, 2001.
Merry Christmas to you!