We've all been COVIDing for over a year now and so many of our behaviors have changed. More home cooking Delivery of anything and everything Less plane flights Very little travel Working from home No hugging or shaking hands Watching tons of streaming TV and movies Becoming a Zoom expert as well as a bunch of other activities... I wonder wha …
Ever notice how everyone else has the answer for your issue? No matter what it is; realtionship, business, love, angst, etc. You explain your issue and in that conversation there'll be at some point a declaritive statement from that person saying "this is what you should do!" I think Gian-Carlo Rota, the famous MIT mathmetician, said it best. …
It almost happened...My sister and I were scheduled to see our Mom face to face this weekend. However, since all of the workers at the assisted living facility did not got vaccinated (which is the subject of a different kind of blog) two of them were diagnosed with COVID-19 and they had to cancel all the visitors...again. So disappointing. We con …
After reading, listening, and watching the impeachment proceedings, I woke up today with this song floating around in my head from the Temptations...(forgive the editing:) Well, the only person talking about love thy brother is the (preacher)And it seems nobody's interested in learning but the (teacher)Segregation, determination, demonstration, i …
Is someone truly great if their path includes cheating or aligning themselves with people who do? This question came up for me this morning when I was thinking about the Super Bowl and Tom Brady. He is often referred to as a G.O.A.T. (Greatest Of All Time). His football acheivements are truly remarkable...6 Super Bowl rings and 10 appearances. No …
Last Thursday evening Gotham hosted a Zoom meeting with Ben's 91 years young Mom, Esther. I have heard her speak before and was looking foward to listening to her again. A little background...Esther lived through the Holocaust because Mengele told her to go to the right and not to the left where her Mother and Brother were told to go. Had it not …
Get paid $47/hour for tasting candy! (yes...for real) Candy Funhouse, based in Mississauga, Ontario, is looking for full-time and part-time "candyologists" to serve as taste testers for the company's confections. BTW you won't have to go to Canada because the positions are remote. And, they are paying $47 an hour to sample and review some of th …
How long would you wait in a Doctor's waiting room before leaving? Keep in mind that the apppointment is not an emergency, just a standard follow up... I found out mine is 70 minutes. Watching people sign in after me, get seen before me and leave while I was waiting is infuriating. After 1 hour and 10 minutes, I told the receptionist I was lea …
A fortune cookie provided by my local Chinese take out with my dinner the other night read: "If you don't enjoy what you have, how could you be happier with more?" That is so true. I was enjoying reflecting on this statement when I turned it over and it said "Please disregard all previous fortunes."
The tradition continues... and your intrepid prognosticator went 3 out of 4 for 2019! In total I'm 21 out of 40 since 2007. Not bad eh?...I'm over .500 and could get milllions for that in baseball :) Okay...so this is a tough year to predict but I'll give it my best shot. 1. The Yankees will win the World Series 2. By years end we will be hug …
I recently found out that the COVID-19 pandemic has prevented many suppliers of Christmas trees from Canada from selling across the border. So now we have spruce thieves - individuals that illegally cut off spruce tops. They work late at night, and use fluorescent tape to mark their trails into the spruce swamps, so they don't get lost on the way …
The joys of winter! It's beautiful...everything coated in white, brisk mornings where you can see your breath, the crunch of snow under your feet and sitting in front of a nice warm, cozy fire. And of course...battling with the snow thrower, slipping and banging your head, shoveling really heavy snow and dealing with drivers that should not be on …
Yesterday was my birthday. In this day and age, part of anybody's birthday is receiving digital wishes. Facebook, LinkedIn, text and email. I think I answered them all...although I'm not 100% sure :) The highlight of the day (which was rather quiet) was having my son over for dinner. It's his birthday on the 15th so we celebrate us. Then my daugh …
A couple of weeks ago, I was participating in a weekly Zoom. There were eight people who shared the same feeling about what is going on in the world and one did not. The person that did not share the same feeling started to express his point of view using analogies. Within minutes he was viified and although we did move on, he subsequently dropp …
Our relationship with technology is continuously evolving. How we engage with our smartphones, fitness trackers, thermostats and our house is very different now than we did 10 years ago. Imagine how it will look 10 years from now. You don’t have to look hard to find studies on how the use of technology impacts our mental health and well-being, pa …
It's Saturday...and anything goes.
