I remember a time before email; when our workdays ended when we left the office and, unless we ventured to the office, we did not work on weekends. Email has completely changed that. And I am not sure how I feel about that. At about ten o’clock Thursday night I heard the sound that I have come to dread, “Droid.” That’s the sound my phone mak …
Being allergic to pine nuts, and therefore having to stay away from pesto as well, Eve is always suspicious of any green sauce on her plate. Last night at a lovely restaurant on Martha's Vineyard many of the entrees said they came with pesto. So we told our server of her allergy. No pesto please. Her dish came with some green sauce and she p …
Here's some news you may like to hear...NASA will pay you $160 a day to lay in bed. I'm not kidding. NASA is seeking volunteers for Spaceflight Simulation Studies by using long-term bed rest to simulate the effects of weghtlessness on the human body. It seems they are getting ready to send astronauts back into space...or maybe pillownauts. If …
I admit that I always looked down my nose and barely tolerated the dog lovers who constantly peppered me with pet pictures and their related cooing. Over the years we have had dogs, which i have tolerated, and one wonderful cat (Kitzel). As many of you may know, this year, after many petless years, I submitted to my wife Joanne's request and we …
I like it when we -- that is Flo, me and all of the children -- are in the same time zone. I can safely write about this because my daughter, Mea, and son-in-law, Charles, who live in Seattle, are in New York for the next few days. Everyone else lives in New York and, until Monday, we'll all be in the same time zone. When Mea and Charl …
Every year coaching hockey we have a draft. Each team is allowed to protect 5 kids from year-to-year, as they enter the division at 14 and leave at 17. It is always a big challenge dealing with the kids that go back into the draft, particularly when we are not able to get them back on my team. Last year, the last kid picked in the draft absolute …
For years, I have ended each day asking my children to “tell me something nice you did today.” I have heard really great stories over the years. Sometimes it was “I helped my friend with a hard math problem”. Other times I heard “I helped a younger kid find their classroom”. Once it was “I was worried that one of my friends had a terrible proble …
Marisa came home from L.A. to attend her cousin Tara's wedding. Tara was the flower girl when Shelly and I married. When Marisa took flight to CA, she left her softball equipment home. She pitched, caught, played every infield position. Initially I played her where I lacked someone to do the job. When the girls began to pitch, we found my da …
One of the most solemn prayers we say on Yom Kippur is U'netaneh Tokef, written centuries ago. It is in many ways the highlight of the long service. Before we got to that during the service yesterday the synogogue's president congratulated everyone for having been inscribed in the book of life last year, which carried some sadness to it as not e …
In Star Trek, The Motion Picture, a destructive space entity travels back to earh to find its creator. In doing so it obiliterates every nonplanet thing in it path except (cue the music) the Starship Enterprise. The crew discovers that it's Voyager I which encountered an alien culture who then decided to fulfill its mission of reporting back to its …
When I was initiated into my college fraternity the final test was the "Black Hole" into which the upper class "Bothers" piled the pledges. Many a boy broke in the "Black Hole" under the weight and closeness of the crammed in mass of hormonal humanity, but more broke with their first experience with claustrophobia. Since that time I have been p …
A Guest Blog by Flo Feinberg It was a beautiful Sunday, perfect for a healthy walk. We had returned from a week of mindless bliss on Martha's Vineyard into the maelstrom of the Jewish holidays...this was the first moment we had to refresh and contemplate the busy autumn ahead. It was warmer than I expected; not a cloud in the sky. So thrille …
Nancy, with her defining moments post yesterday, has set me up nicely for my first ever guest post on Gotham. September 11, 2001 and September 11, 2005 were both defining moments in my life. And defining moments become the stories that we tell and retell in the hope that we can make some sense of them. On September 11, 2001 I was at a conferenc …
You know (because I probably talk about it way too much) that my daughter is an avid public speaking competitor. We were talking recently about the fact that her favorite speeches usually begin “The date was XXXXXXX” followed by a distinct description of the moment. That observation started us talking about the dates or moments that define each of …
When I was younger, I had a great memory. As a student, I could read something one time and be able to regurgitate it back on an exam. At this point in my life, however, my memory is not the same. I am constantly picking up the phone to make a call and forget who I wanted to call or walking into the pantry of my house to get something and forget wh …
