I mentioned last month that Fanella Fielding was one of my favorite people and always will be... but I have a lot of people on my favorite people list...one of them is my friend Buck... I wrote about Buck previously in that we travelled together to Greece quite often... fact of the matter is because of Buck I know my way around Morocco, Cairo and Amsterdam and because of him I once sailed on the QE2 and met Carly Simon for the second time... I don't think I made as indelible impression on her as she did me the first time... but I think it might have something to do with the fact that at the time she was dating Al Corley (after he left Dynasty).
Although I don't know any of the intimate details of their life and eventual breakup... I have it on good authority that it was much more than not wanting to be Carly Corley.
My Friend Buck was one in a million...but I digress because today I'm not writing about Buck... but actually the denomination of $100.00---
One hundred dollars has for me and almost everyone I have ever known to be the magical and coveted bill folded into birthday, X-mas, and Bar Mitzvah cards... it always carried a lot of clout with me growing up. The first time I ever had an actual conversation about it was leaving the Olympic Games in Lake Placid in 1980... my friends and I were driving away discussing how far one hundred dollars did not go at The Olympics as far as event tickets and food and entertainment.... so we passed the drive time discussing what $100 was worth at different times in our lives... when I was old enough to start spending money in larger amounts it would buy a good ski parka... or a weekend of skiing including lift tickets and meals... these days it can still buy a pretty fabulous lunch for two in NYC and you can really get more bang for your 100 bucks if you know when and where to shop. The fact of the matter is with everyone on television saying how great the economy is... I don't think the economy should be measured on how many billionaires there are but by how many who are struggling to get by... with all of this it has reminded me that even though one hundred dollars does not go as far as it once did... I'm still equally delighted to find one folded in a card as I was when I was young.
I'm making it short and sweet this week and because I have much more going on than I can handle right now and I really can't do justice here dealing with everything else so I'll be taking my holiday break early this year and will return in 2019!
I would like to say an extra special thank you to everyone who reads my blog regularly...
Thank you all and have a joyous holiday and a happy new year!
Cheers!
