On the bench

You miss a few days of walking at the mall and suddenly there are walls where windows used to be. And the benches that are typically filled with old gents shooting the breeze while waiting on their wives have been relocated to a center isle in the mall. Based on the erection of the newest interior wall, I guess there's no hope that there will ever be an inside entrance to TJ Max. I hope that won't be the case when Stein Mart relocates.

I spent a couple of days this week near Leesburg in northern VA. A shopper's paradise! I hope that in the future we have shopping venues that will compare with those of our neighbors to the north. Of course, if that means we also need to build on every square inch of land and congest all of our roadways with traffic in order to get it, then forget it. I'll just take a little shopping trip now and then.