Lifestyle
Corey Bearak
Jul02
How Long May You Run
Posted By : Corey Bearak

Read the other day how better health care and other environmental factors may allow some of us or others our near future to reach age 150 (and our Friday blogger only seeks 1/3 of that number).   I found myself musing what activities might one pursue approaching well short of those numbers.   We socialize with people in our age range, some a bit

Corey Bearak
Jun11
Your Friends
Posted By : Corey Bearak

RIP Adam West. I really enjoyed that series in my youth. I enjoyed the comics. In all his appearances always a nice person. RIP Batman.   I took to social media, Twitter to be exact, when I wanted to learn about his passing. I learned he enjoyed 150,000 followers and only followed 115. His page said he joined Twitter in March 2009 – one month

Corey Bearak
May07
Something Special
Posted By : Corey Bearak

  Gotham City Networking, Inc.® certainly connects its members (and others) for business and other reasons. The social parts remains secondary but that often forges the bases for the important business relations. We also might “join forces” on civic and non profit boards. In other cases we might get involved in some of the causes advanced by ot

Corey Bearak
Apr30
Playin' in the band
Posted By : Corey Bearak

I enjoy teamwork.   From playing basketball many a time, I see one or more players complaining about the sides we make.   We really endeavor to balance things.   I look beyond the sum of individual talents and the try to weigh the chemistry of the team; how they work together, find open players, make the right pass, set that monster pick, roll to t

Corey Bearak
Mar26
Thirty-two
Posted By : Corey Bearak

32.   Someone asked yesterday what I planned to blog on today. That person encouraged a blog about politics. I considered it and I might shared something on that when it muses me.   Today, I want to discuss a number.   A good solid number.   It means something special here – this year.   It relates not to sports though perhaps the greatest at

Corey Bearak
Jan15
Made In The Shade
Posted By : Corey Bearak

In my weekly eve and weekend games, the same expectation applies to all players: Get open, get ball, shoot.  And some I play with demonstrate phenomenal shots and range.  I know my spots and when to slide or roll after a pick. Folks found  the ball we used at our last session a bit heavy so maybe the usual bounce or roll that falls into the basket

Corey Bearak
Jan08
Sometimes In Winter - A Snow Day
Posted By : Corey Bearak

I already played two hours of (basket)ball, enough of a workout for any day. I did not anticipate that hours later another workout loomed.   When I left early to drop off Shelly’s dad at a medical appointment before heading to the school to play, it snowed lightly. By the time a reached the school there was an inch covering the sidewalk. I was d

Corey Bearak
Nov13
Closing up shop
Posted By : Corey Bearak

Besides my usual basketball game, this weekend I needed to attend to some seasonal chores.   I covered the air living room conditioner and covering various bedroom air conditioners, and in my home office/ study one casement window and the air conditioner.   Since I still like to “sneak” out to use the deck to read the morning papers or on weekend

Corey Bearak
Oct02
And Now You're Gone
Posted By : Corey Bearak

I knew the time would be soon.   Much of the summer I gave thought to it.   Retirement.   After basketball this morning, I stopped home before continuing on some usual errands, including checking the P.O. Box, gassing up my car, and sometimes a bank deposit.   I needed to pick up a civic association check to pay my neighborhood printer, Gotham's ow

Corey Bearak
Sep18
Seeding a friendship
Posted By : Corey Bearak

This past Friday during lunch in Princeton, my friend architect extraordinaire Josh Zinder asked each attendee to share a story.   Since the next Friday (September 23) marks a special anniversary of sorts, I shared how I met Fred C. Klein or perhaps how Fred met me.   A version of that story, perhaps the definitive one, appears in the March 2016