IN MY LIFE-ECLIPSE

As far as I'm concerned they can call off the eclipse.

I'm sure it will be spectacular. Hasn't been n eclipse in North America since 1979, 38 years ago. The next one won't occur until 2024.

Even though it's been pounded into our heads not to look directly at the sun tomorrow afternoon without special NASA approved glasses, stupid people will risk their vision by checking out the solar eclipse.

Who is their right mind actually stares into the sun anyway? But knowing that something is going on up there may entice folks to stare into the sky, a feeling of "I just gotta do it." A brief glance seems to be OK. And life can go on during the 3 hours of the eclipse, as long as you don't stare at the sun, which most of us don't do anyway.

The media has made a big deal out of the celestial event, calling it The Great American Eclipse. People will take off from work and school; the networks plan special coverage during the afternoon.; people are traveling great distances to join scientists or "viewing parties" to be within the "Path of Totality" where it the sun will be 100% covered by the moon.

We are scheduled top get 80% coverage, a particle eclipse.

It will be interesting to see the effects on nature, with the afternoon turning into night. Animals, birds, flowers- how will they cope with the change?

My hair stylist plans to view it with the special glasses, but alarmingly, someone told her in error, that "You don't need the glasses in Pennsylvania", like Pennsylvania had a special, protective shield over the state? Such misinformation is out there, and unless people are smart, there are bound to health issues.

Will all traffic and work productivity cease on Monday? How many times will the Bonnie Tyler song, "Total Eclipse of the Heart" be played?

It is cool to think that it truly is a United States event, that no matter what your race, creed and religion is, we are all sharing this together. It kind of makes us one and reminds us that we are all on the same page when it comes down to it.

The networks have it all scheduled out precisely. Unless God decides to send a message to the world by doing a Twilight Zone-like world changing surprise, the moon getting stuck in it's orbit, things will go along pretty smoothly.

Luckily for millennial eclipse watchers ( this really is a big-time millennial event),the weather looks like it will be fairly clear all across the country on Monday. And it's our eclipse this time, not an eclipse we only read about or see on the evening news, an eclipse that happened somewhere else in the world.

It's a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence., so it is historic, as it is estimated this will be the most viewed and hyped eclipse in history.

Me? I'm staying inside and waiting it out.