Weekend coffee #170.

With one shot down and the next scheduled, I’m starting to think about what the world looks like once we’re fully inoculated. I have tentatively booked some domestic travel for mid-May in hopes we’ll be able to leave the NJ area for the first time since mid-2019. Wow. That’s a long time. Fingers crossed. I also bought tickets to a Mets game and the Kusama exhibit at the New York Botanical Garden in late June. It feels strange to have something on my calendar again. I’m proceeding with cautious optimism. Otherwise, here’s what’s happening:

• Scenes From the First American Shopping Mall (1956)

• I’m a Child of a Hoarder — And I’m Trying to Do Better for My Own Family

• The Year Earth Changed

• We Want Our Friends Back! (But Which Ones?)

• Watch Power Trip & Obituary members honor Riley Gale with “Executioner’s Tax (Swing of the Axe)” performance

• New teeny earrings I own and love.

• Watching: Mad About You. It’s completely insipid.

• Reading: The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah.

That’s all for now. More on those travel plans soon. Hint: it will be my 40th state visited. Until next time - thanks for following along.

Image by @trommelkopf.