I proudly display all sorts of objects on my desk that my kids made when they were little. I have a ceramic pencil holder that Max made and a small little ceramic bowl that I use to hold paper clips. From Hilary I have a great paperweight with my initials on it in squiggly wormy letters. I have used it for many years. Josh made me something. …
We moved into a new house last weekend. We had to decide whether or not to mount our TVs on the wall. It I was not the most monumental decision. But neither is where to put the espresso spoons. The choice still has to be made. We ended up mounting the TVs in the living room and the bedroom, though I have to get used to it. It feels a lit …
From now on I am going to say less. I think that is best.
As mentioned last week, we are moving shortly. We have been very busy packing. We also have to paint two darker colored walls in our current townhouse with primer. There is a handyman we use for all sorts of things and we had asked him to do it. Then I thought why not do it myself and save a few hundred dollars. So I bought the primer and a …
We are moving in a few weeks. We are doing a little bit of work in our new house. Some cabinet work, a little bit in the kitchen, staining floors. And it needs a paint job. Not the whole house, just some of it. Of all the work, the painting came in the most expensive, by far. It was lots of thousands. I did not think I was hiring Van Go …
I am computer impaired. Some time ago a glass of water spilled on my Apple laptop. It won't allow me to type upper case and ever time you hit a key you get two letters. Our very old Toshiba laptop just gave up two weeks ago. Something like computer heart failure. And three days ago my office computer made a loud pop, then sizzled and smelled l …
I was touched by a post in the In Memoriam section of the New York Times this week. I cannot comment on it. It speaks powerfully for itself and the grieving father who wrote it. Here it is: "Transcending, ever flowing, my love is with its essence...you. Your endless kindness and compassion still inspiring, your love for others bigger than yo …
I have written a few times about my office toys, which include a yo-yo, a baseball, a rubber ball, and a few other assorted diversions. My partner has a little putting green but he must not like it because he keeps it in a box. My favorite is the little beach ball. It is in the picture. An appellate printer sent it to me as a holiday gift a …
Throughout history there have been periods when facial hair was in, and times when it was out. More recently, in the late 19th century, long beards were the thing. Then the beards were shaved and during the turn of the century a mustache was the fad. Now it seems that a one week growth is popular among some. I have my own cycles. Typically …
Over the years from time to time I have worked on my family tree. With familyecho.com, I have now mapped it out, and with a total of forty seven entries have taken it to the level of my great great great grandparents on my father's mother's father's parents' side, if you can follow that. My great great greats were Sarah Stein and Solomon Potak, a …
There are many things in my office that aggravate me. Mostly it is the piles of paper that never seem to go away -- like an annoying child. They just get moved around or replaced by another pile. Our carpeting has to be replaced, and there is a piece of metal that was sticking out on my desk that scratched my brand new chair. Working can be a b …
Heartland Brewery was under fire last week for a slogan attached to one of its beers, which was a dark Bavarian. The theme of the beer was S & M, and the label (see photo) was a woman with a whip standing over a submissive man. Whether you like that image or not, it is supposed to be a good beer. The controversy was over the advertising of …
This was a weekend of old family traditions, snowed out traditions, and new ones. We spent it in the Berkshires. There were about twenty of us, young and old. It has been a number of years since the extended group (almost) all assembled in Lenox. One of our traditions is touch football on the golfcourse just a few yards from the house. This y …
This is my last blog. I am continually frustrated when I write something and go to post and it is not there or gets deleted. Oddly, it happens to the blogs that I think are the best and is infinitely frustrating. My attemped post for today, in which I was paying homage to my parents on my 60th birthday, magically disappeared two times. This ha …
Always enjoying confusing my mind by trying to understand theoretical physics, I tried hard to understand the movie Interstellar. Without giving away any plot, I will only say it has a little to do with black holes, worm holes, the warping of spacetime, and most intriguing of all -time distortion. Black holes, at their simplest of levels, can b …
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