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Corey Bearak
May12
Thank you and best wishes to all our moms
Posted By : Corey Bearak

One special benefit of Sunday blogging: I get to wish all the mom’s a special Happy Mother’s Day.    Yesterday, I spent time with mom; my brother Richy visits her today. Our son and his wife hosts his mom and I today; our daughter also will be there too (she’s arranged the food.).   What I am not able to do this year is celebrate the mom Richy

Corey Bearak
May05
Open for Business
Posted By : Corey Bearak

Throughout last month, Shelly and I had talked of getting our deck, aka my Outside Office, ready. Before deploying the furniture, the first step involves a good power-washing of the deck, its railing and the patio below. It also involves cleaning the table and chair, covered by tarp for the last several months. This year, my loving wife handled all

Corey Bearak
Apr28
429
Posted By : Corey Bearak

So tomorrow is April 29; 4/29 if use we use just numbers. When I went to post today’s blog, I was greeted by a message (see upper left) that I have 428 posts (Today is 4/28.). That means the blog that post today is #429. A coincidence. Any significance. Something to ponder. I posed that question to Google. I learned that there is something called 

Corey Bearak
Apr21
Tomorrow Celebrate Our Earth
Posted By : Corey Bearak

Some readers of this commentary surely know the significance of tomorrow. Tomorrow we observe Earth Day. On “X” – formerly twitter (Oh how I wish Mr. Musk would restore that name and much more to that “platform”) – I saw hashtags #EarthDay, #EarthDay2024 and #EarthDay24; take your pick; I expect to use at least two of the three. The environment mat

Corey Bearak
Apr14
Daughter "featured" in BP's SOTB
Posted By : Corey Bearak

Friday, I attend the Queens Borough President's Annual State of the Borough ("SOTB") speech.  The last several years I've attended the SOTB with my daughter Marisa who works at the American Jewish Committee.  This year I met in the parking lot the venue, Queens Theatre in the Park, shares with the Queens Museum in Flushing Meadows Corona Park.  She

Corey Bearak
Apr07
Look at the Sun
Posted By : Corey Bearak

Who does not know and perhaps also look forwarded to viewing and experiencing tomorrow's Solar Eclipse? The New York Times posted "A solar eclipse soundtrack" for subscribers only on Friday.  It motivated the commentator to search songs which included the word "sun" in whole or part of their titles.  I found more than a few; multiple versions in ma

Corey Bearak
Mar31
Gotham Rocks Lives (again)
Posted By : Corey Bearak

After going virtual last time out, Gotham's Annual Battle of the Band® presented by Jason Greenberg of Phoenix Public Adjusters Group, Inc. goes live once more, Sunday May 19, 3:00 to 6: 00 p.m. at Groove, 125 Macdougal Street, (Greenwich Village) New York, NY 10012. Winners will be selected by a panel of judges selected by the Gotham Battle of th

Corey Bearak
Mar24
Home
Posted By : Corey Bearak

A few weeks back I updated one of my playlists with a Traffic song -- Many A Mile to Freedom -- that played on "my" AppleMusic radio station while Shelly and I took a drive to the "mall."  When I opened the "Playlists" folder on my MacBook I found an unfinished one (from the summer of 2022); a list of songs but no links to YouTube; I also found i n

Corey Bearak
Mar17
Access restored
Posted By : Corey Bearak

Two weeks ago yesterday on my way back from bringing in dinner, I notice fallen tree branches on my sidewalk.  Blocking it.  I moved them against the tree pit and which extends about 12 feet.  The larger of the two fallen branch still block access from the curb/street as it extends about 20 feet.  Shelly took this picture and I submitted it as p

Corey Bearak
Mar10
Just fifty more and then...
Posted By : Corey Bearak

I concluded last week's commentary noting a need for $4,000 to activate a matching donation to support the special People4Peace research project.  As I write this only $50 needs to come in to make the match happen. Friday's blogger worked very hard to induce support; I view last week's efforts commendable and thank the generosity of the donors to N

Corey Bearak
Mar03
Addressing Hate
Posted By : Corey Bearak

Something unexpected intruded on “my” Friday. I expected to focus on getting the last few items submitted to access a federal grant toward the new building renovation project for SNAP senior center, monitoring that day’s hearing on what I call the congestion pricing tax, visiting TD Bank to deposit donations to Northeast Queens Jewish Community Cou

Corey Bearak
Feb25
A change is gonna come
Posted By : Corey Bearak

Probably not fair to borrow the title of the iconic song by Sam Cooke for the change I currently face. It really only affects me. The solution also evidenced how relationships matter and how pro bono involvements can offer unintended and unexpected benefits. I returned a call Friday from Jim who runs the servers that hosts four websites that rea

Corey Bearak
Feb18
Optimism time
Posted By : Corey Bearak

Annually, in the middle of winter, something happens that brings a bout of optimism.  It especially matters when my green gridiron team, unfortunately more often than not, falls short of expectations, or worse offers no expectations.  My hoops team based at MSG, some of the time, but this year especially, helps temper the upset.  So as the game pla

Corey Bearak
Feb11
A playlist for this Wednesday
Posted By : Corey Bearak

In advance of Wednesday, instead of or beside that box of chocolates or nice piece of jewelry, why not offer a set of songs that reflect the sentiments of the day (and more).  At this time, I present Songs of Love, a set of 78 videos on YouTube or some 70 tunes on Apple Music. In the summer of 2016 a good friend and his wife celebrated their 50th

Corey Bearak
Feb04
Working...to make friends
Posted By : Corey Bearak

While I promote my work around the concept of making a difference - mostly in the realm of public policy, and often speak about the joy it often (always) brings this commentator, I gave some thought how it allows me to meet new and interesting people and forge relationships.  Most recently it involves two groups meeting weekly with a flurry of call