Last week my Friday With Fred blog was about the Anubis Horribus year of 1968, eg, 2 assassinations and my friend David Berger suggested I lighten it up by blogging about the wonderful subsequent year. 1969 has been called The Year That Shook the World. Pictured are many of the wonderful highlights of a wonderful bounce-back year! For me, a Spo …
Inasmuch as Monday was Martin Luther King day, I harked back to 1968, the year of Dr. King’s assassination. I was a young impressionable man then and I recall it being Anubis horribus! A significant number of horrible events come to mind, as pictured. Is there a lesson to be learned from enduring 1968? Yes and No. Subsequent history teaches us …
What was the very best Holiday present you received last year? No question, mine was from granddaughter Maggie Klein. It was Storyworth. To learn more visit www.storyworth.com. The concept is that every Monday I receive a question, eg, What was your first job? I answer the question and add an appropriate picture and it goes on and on weekly …
On New Year’s Day I decided I would make New Year’s resolutions. Having reached that conclusion I then pondered what they would be?I conjured that I would Live Right and drink more water. Boring?Not if I fulfill it!
Two of my favorite words and concepts are Tradition and Family. Tradition is the transmission of customs or beliefs from generation to generation. Family is synonymous with lineage, clan or Tribe. Combined together, Family Tradition constitutes very strong ties that bind. Very closely!Our 3 generation family has just observed our annual holiday …
I always believed in Santa Claus. Still do!Tonight we continue our Family tradition of decorating our hearth with Santas small and large and they inspire me to think, as I mature and whiten. Aren’t there really 4 stages of life:1) You believe in Santa2) You don’t believe in Santa3) You are Santa and4) You look like Santa!
My wife couldn’t get the Amazon app to open on her computer, but I could on my phone. So I agreed to help, in my way, with her holiday shopping. And so began the following innocent, incompetent and frustrating adventure exploring the Amazon.In my own way, I then ordered the wrong thing or the wrong size or the wrong color. Or I ordered the righ …
I lead off with a gush of good feelings and appreciation, engendered by our Tuesday night annual (Zoom) Holiday Party. It was that good, that abundant, that sharing, that Tribal!We gave out our prestigious Awards and 7 Foundation Grants and the recipients‘ palpable surprise and appreciation was wonderful. We shared praise and Gotham history. We c …
Showers require water, lots of water and water is our most taken for granted Natural Resource. So much so, that when I take a shower I turn off the faucet after I’m watered down and before I soap up. Then I turn it on again to rinse. I know a long hot shower is a wonderful, sensual luxury, but think of all that precious water down the drain!It take …
Inspired by my friend BingoJo Celi’s recent piece on the same subject and in the afterglow of being around the table with family yesterday, I realize I am blessed with a cornucopia of things to be thankful for.Rather than list them, suffice it to say, in addition to gratitude for my readers, my cup runneth over!And you?
After 53 fruitful years with the same law firm, I am embarking on a new adventure with my Partners Joan Rothermel, Jane Jacobs and Nancy Schess (plus our associate Brian Gordon and indispensable Matt Bost). We are joining the prestigious, full service mid town firm of Tarter Krinsky & Drogin, LLP. We are still there for you and even deeper an …
Last week I blogged about (and in favor of year round) Daylight Saving Time and this week’s is about the difficulty adjusting to the recent time change. In a word, it was (and still is) Brutal :( Yes, this is a short blog, but there is really nothing more to say…
The expression goes: All good things must come to an end. But do they?Honestly, who doesn’t like Day Light Saving Time (DST)?Light at the end of the day just has to be a mood enhancer. Yet the dark, depressing time of the year will shroud us early Sunday morning.We should have DST year round!As far back as the 1700s, sagacious Ben Franklin propos …
Showers require water, lots of water and water is our most taken for granted Natural Resource. So much so, that when I take a shower I turn off the faucet once I’m watered down and before I soap up. Then I turn it on again to rinse. I know a long hot shower is a wonderful, sensual luxury, but think of all that precious water down the drain. It take …
I can’t explain how or why it started, but for quite some time now I have been running my own Social Media version of a Bingo Game. If you are on Facebook and are my Friend you can sample it twice a day (at 5:00 and 5:00). The way it works is that I post a tough to identify picture of a celebrity and the players fire away with their guesses and wh …
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