Everyone was home last weekend. It was one of those special times. As my family has been known to do, we spent a whole evening watching home movies. I can’t really explain why, but this time I was completely taken by the evolution of our hair, each and every one of us. The movies went back to literally to the day Jaclyn was born and beyond. Let …
I watched “Avengers: Endgame” for about the fifth time this past weekend. My husband was watching the football game on Saturday afternoon and I went into another room to watch something else. Before I knew it, I was putting on Disney Plus and clicking on “Endgame.” “Endgame” is one of those movies I can watch over and over again, along with movi …
A year ago I found myself blogging about how “my” baseball team messed up things, some not its fault, some self-induced with the selection of a new manager. Perhaps fitting under the prior never ready for prime time owners. Things changed this off-season, perhaps not soon enough, but certainly in satisfying ways for most, if not all, fans of my tea …
How long would you wait in a Doctor's waiting room before leaving? Keep in mind that the apppointment is not an emergency, just a standard follow up... I found out mine is 70 minutes. Watching people sign in after me, get seen before me and leave while I was waiting is infuriating. After 1 hour and 10 minutes, I told the receptionist I was lea …
I have made up a game which I play on Facebook. I post interesting, but obscure, photographs of celebrities or sports figures and my Facebook friends guess as to identity. If and when a person guesses correctly, I award a colorful Bingo! It’s participatory fun! Last week I posted a mid 20th century photograph of Norman Rockwell painting Marilyn …
When the 21 Club announced that it was yet another casualty of Covid-19, I thought about that special lunch in August of 2018 when Flo and I - with several other Gotham members - enjoyed the rare experience of eating in the restaurant’s once secret underground dining room.During the years of Prohibition, the “privileged” of New York could still par …
How are you defining success in 2021? My story begins in December of 2020. Picture a make-shift she-shed with all the beautiful trimmings. Mirrored desk, with large double monitors, complete with a fancy media light to give proper, Hollywood lighting to those Zoom and WebEx calls.This money manager has been holding many family fortunes in place, l …
My blog today is short. Mostly because I am trying to keep it within the rules and to keep my sentiment from sounding political. But I just can’t write about anything else. I am so very worried about our country. At the same time, however, I am choosing to be hopeful. When my kids were young, we used to say that being angry was a choice. Of …
I wrote this blog before the events of last week with the intention of posting it today. After the events of last week, I seriously considered holding this blog back. But my intended message is important and not intended, at all, to address current events. As many of my Facebook friends know, I posted on December 31, 2020 that I was having my an …
I often look back at what I drafted the previous year before I compose the instant blog. Peaking at that 2020 commentary really focused on the contrast in how we live today, still under a Pandemic but hopefully vaccinated, or on the verge of receiving this protective measure. Last year – joined by a few friends – I watched a playoff game albeit n …
A fortune cookie provided by my local Chinese take out with my dinner the other night read: "If you don't enjoy what you have, how could you be happier with more?" That is so true. I was enjoying reflecting on this statement when I turned it over and it said "Please disregard all previous fortunes."
Did you ever notice a circular scar on someone’s arm or leg? When I was young such scars were visible and common due to the mid 20th century need for smallpox vaccinations. To my knowledge such scars are not caused by a coronavirus vaccination. I am one of the people who seeks to be vaccinated. I just got on a vaccination list and can’t wait for …
When my children were born, I saved a copy of the New York Times from their birthday. I’m not sure what eventually happened to those copies over the many years but I remember showing it to them as they grew up. On Tuesday, my daughter gave birth to her second child - our newest grand-daughter. On Wednesday, my daughter texted me and asked me whet …
So what’s really changed other than the date on the calendar? 2020 was marked by so much uncertainty – I dare say more than usual – and here we are in 2021. One of my favorite’s by Sondheim is “With So Little to Be Sure Of” is about being grateful for a beautiful moment in time, “a marvelous moment” despite there being “so little to be sure of. …
Just like everything right about now, it’s a weird new year. But I am kind of psyched for 2021. Yes, I know that we are not anywhere near through the crises that have plagued us all since early last year. I’m still at my dining room table just as I was just before the new year. But there was something about the new year coming, that has mad …
