Off the subject…but I read that story about Betelgeuse dimming and speculation about this being a precursor to a supernova. It has been on my bucket list since I first learned about supernovae when I was eight years old that I hoped there’d be a naked-eye supernova in my lifetime.

While SN 1987A was naked eye, it was in another galaxy and not very spectacular. The boyfriend and I did consider going to Central America to see it before it dimmed, but the combination of me being in law school and broke, and the political situation in Central America at the time was dicey (plus the weather might not cooperate), so it didn’t happen.

This is the one bucket list item I have no control over. I so want it to happen.