Have you noticed all the tents cropping up in back yards and parking lots?A sign of the times!With the cold weather coming I am told there has been a run on out door heat lamps and tents too I’m sure. How else will restaurants survive?For me, Thanksgiving turkey with family is a goal which I have been pushing. Where is Omar the tent maker when I n …
I believe it is more than the survival instinct or rationalization that causes me to seek out and see silver linings in this depressing time of horrible pandemic. Do you see any silver linings?I see many. Some are small steps, some should have happened before and some are seismic shifts, but all are moves in a positive direction. One obvious and v …
I know someone who went out with Ruth Bader in high school in Brooklyn. He described her as smart, pretty, vivacious and a cheerleader. No matter how hard I pressed or the questions I asked he said no more. Being me, I was intrigued by his description of her being a cheerleader. It was spice that just didn’t fit her frilled collar image. So I dug …
One of my many problems is that I always remember my dreams. Remember The Paper Chase movie wherein Professor Kingsfield (pictured) terrorized first year law students?Well, my nightmare is my own terrorized Paper Chase embellishment: I’m a first year law student and I’m always unprepared and Professor Kingsfield is always calling on me. Then befor …
I admit that I have been a life long sucker (there’s that word) for a bargain. I am drawn to one like Icarus to the sun. So it’s no surprise that I love CVS!I love the discount certificates that come when I pay. I love the discounts that come by email and when I click on them go straight to my CVS card. I love that I can find almost anything in t …
In these Black Swan times I have a long long ago connection. When I was a young boy my mother told me that her father died in the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. I mentioned it to Nancy and, of course, it was news to her and her first impulse was to Google him. Later she told me she found nothing. Yet, it was Nancy’s impulse to probe Google that r …
This blog is inspired by my wife Joanne who I overheard riffing “I used to hug my grandchildren” (see photo) and on and on and on...I asked her to Guest Blog, but if you know Jo you know that was not in the cards. So here I go: I used to fear something bad was just around the corner I used to be a commuter I used to be a softball pitcher for the Ba …
I came up when Mayor LaGuardia read the comics on the radio, before TV test patterns and Uncle Miltie and listened in on a telephone Party Line. So a lot of communication progress has occurred in my life span, but I was never so much in the dark as I have been since the August 4th storm. First we lost power and we soldiered through it, but the nast …
When we came home from dinner last Friday night, it was a most welcome sight for sore eyes to see the pictured outdoor spotlights lit up for all their worth. It got me to thinking that the spot lights were well worth their extra cost as they have been in constant use for at least 2 years. They are the new, more expensive, “Long Life” bulbs. T …
During our past reality, when I came home from a “Hard Days Work” Joanne would greet me with “How was your day?”, serve a great supper and ask for little help with the “House Wife” work. Now that we are mostly marooned at home the equation has shifted drastically. To say the least, since the onset of the pandemic, I have undergone significant chang …
Yesterday was the anniversary of my marriage to Joanne Carol Davidson, my Roslyn High School Sweet Heart. Our wedding picture is above. Yes we looked like Maxwell Smart and Agent 99 back in the day and yes so many lamented that I “Got the Girl”. Only last week in the run up to our Anniversary someone wrote to me on Facebook “You are a lucky guy Fre …
“Every thing is up to date in Gotham City” is a play on the words of a Rodgers and Hammerstein Oklahoma song. With that I announce that I have updated all of my Social Media optics with the very same photo featured above. It is up to date because I’m responsibly sporting a Fauci mask and what’s more, my front seat riding cohort Charcoal is smiling …
When I was young my father taught me the importance of looking someone in the eye while giving a firm handshake. Handshake?History tells us that the handshake derives from the ancient Greek gesture of peace, extending the right hand to show that neither person was carrying a weapon. The last time I shook someone’s hand was on March 5th when I shook …
In these weird, stressful, sometimes sureal, uncharted Covid 19 days Joanne and I find ourselves constantly saying two things to each other: Janis Joplin’s “Its all the same f...ing day, man!” and Kenny Rogers’ “What condition is your condition in?” Have a nice day and mind your condition!
I rarely, if ever repeat a blog, but I am compelled to do so because, although posted 6 weeks ago, it is even more relevant and poignant today. The blog was entitled Typhoid Mary and went as follows: "Her name was Mary Mallon and she was a rich man's cook in the early 20th century. Trouble was that she was an asymptomatic carrier of Typ …
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