It is hard to imagine the World SERIES being held in the SWEET hazy sunshine of late September rather than the sour night AIR of late October, but that is precisely what has transpired in baseball over the past 50 YEARS, a deterioration from light to DARKNESS.

I moved to NEW York on October 21, 2004, and it was the day that the Chelsea Grill, a RESTAURANT in HELL's Kitchen on 9th Avenue between 46th and 47th STREET, opened. I had never waited a table in my life, but I walked in and lied to the manager in a very J. Pierrepont Finch way.

In OCTOBER 2014, for the first time in almost three-quarters of a century, a GRAY wolf was seen loping along the forested North Rim of the Grand Canyon, in Arizona. She had WALKED HUNDREDS of miles, probably from Wyoming or Idaho.