Last year at this time, the outdoor office was nearly complete. Going into this weekend I was not sure time would allow me to power wash the deck; that task remains the prerequisite to deploying the deck furniture stored in the shed, including the umbrellas. I am glad to report I completed the section where I setup. So sometime after this blog g …
Once in a while I notice a screw or small bolt somewhere on the floor in my house. I pick it up, stare at it and look around to see where it came from. I check all the surrounding furniture and appliances but nothing is misssing. So, I place it in a small draw on a table in my bedroom thinking I'll eventually find what this screw is holding togethe …
Events Chairman Norm Spizz and our Golf Committee (Brad Scherer, Corey Bearak, David Perry, Fred Morante, Jayne Latz, Laurel Scarr-Konel, Matt Plociak, Neal Berman, Reliable Ray Walcott, Shelley Simpson, Steve Reisner and Vincent Derogotis) are hard at work preparing for our October 7th Bob Formica Golf Out at Engineers Country Club where we got ou …
We recently visited Great Barrington, Massachusetts. The Berkshires is one of our favorite places and we visit several times a year. Because of Covid, we had not been there in several months.There have been changes on Railroad Street in Great Barrington, a commercial street off of Main Street. Bizen, the Japanese restaurant (owned and operated by o …
I had a different blog set for this morning, but something Fred said in our Philadelphia Gotham meeting last night prompted me to save the planned blog for another day, and write about the author. Fred is an amazing person. We all know this, and we surely have told him the same. Fred chooses the best in all of us and draws it to the surface. Like …
I have to admit I’m a little anxious. As I write this blog, I am readying to go back to my office tomorrow. It’s time. And truth is, I’m a little excited. I was back over the summer for a while, a few days a week. I distinctly remember that feeling of stepping foot into my office for the first time. It was truly emotional. Sitting at my desk b …
I recently read an interesting article in New York Magazine. The subject of the article was the perennial maskers. The people interviewed for the story claimed that, even after mask mandates are lifted in New York and by the federal government, they would continue to wear their masks. Most of them agreed that they felt safe wearing masks and cou …
Last year on this day, the #1 mom in my life — obviously the one I live with — got a surprise involving her son visiting our place with his then girlfriend now fiancé. This year no surprise but a visit nonetheless. After a campaign HQ opening — outdoors & masked for my newest client, I returned to pick up Shelly and begin a drive to Amherst, …
So today (Friday) at 3P I had an experience I haven't had in quite awhile...a business appointment that was not on Zoom. Masks on, elbow bumps for hello and a 10 minute conversation on shots, antibodies and viruses in general. I was excited to be in front of an actual person. It was different, familiar and very comforting in a strange sort of wa …
If you have been vaccinated, I believe you are on the right track. What’s more, once vaccinated you receive a proof of vaccination card and it’s a keeper, as you may need it for various purposes. As such, you need to maintain it in decipherable condition and what better way than lamination. I pondered where can I get my vaccination card laminat …
“Are you vaccinated?” Is that the question that you can, or can’t, ask?Lawyers are struggling with the question in several contexts and it has become a political football. But I’m talking about you and me.It seems to me that unless someone is vaccinated, I need to be as protective of myself and cautious with respect to that person as I was in the d …
May the Forth be with you! I know it’s Cinco de Mayo, but, I love Star Wars. To all those Star Wars fans out there, I was reminded of wisdom Yoda shared with young Luke, while stretching his abilities in the swamp. When we clear our minds and decide to DO something, we commit to seeing it thru. I love Yoda and am reminded to remain present. For w …
List making is not only my best organizational tool but it is also oddly the activity that calms my stress. It is as if once I’ve written it down, in some order and with clear intent, I’ve taken the most important step towards completion and “checking it off”. I literally use a program that lets me check something off the list because of that feel …
I am a person who loves her routines, especially my Saturday morning routine. My husband works on Saturdays so I have the time to myself. Almost every Saturday morning, I exercise, do my office billing, write my blog, and then do my errands. That is pretty much the way my day goes most Saturdays. This past Saturday morning, a surprise birthday …
Some may have noted someone MIA....again... at the Gotham Happy Hour. Sometimes the logistics work not at all. The intention remains. Parental duties intervened. Our son yesterday moved into home number 10 yesterday morning; his parents helped him and his fiance finish their “exit” from downtown Brooklyn across Adams Street from where his uncle wor …
