I spend a lot of time on the Long Island Railroad. One of my favorite things to do during an otherwise uneventful commute is to catch up on great television. I found my love for Mad Men on the LIRR. (Really not a reference to my fellow commuters -- most days.) And then last year, Downton Abbey took Mad Men’s place. (I can’t wait for the new se …
Summer is off to a great start in my house. My daughter is in the middle of a project with a non-profit that is turning out to be a fantastic experience on so many levels. My son just finished the travel camp half of his summer and has now started the sports half. Baseball camp started today and he has already won an award for some play in the outf …
You may, or may not, know that I am a confessed Royal Watcher. My obsession with the royal family started with Princess Diana. I just really liked her. That obsession has grown to include royal weddings, the Queen at the Olympics last year, and now the icing on the cake – the birth of the Royal Baby. Now, I can’t help but wonder what name will be …
There he was. Oblivious to the world around him. A pair of noise cancelling headphones perched comfortably around his head. A little quiet singing? Perhaps. Just to his left, a woman walked quietly oblivious to the world around her. No headphones but a smartphone would suffice. A very serious conversation clearly in full swing. Behind …
Really. The air conditioner hasn’t taken a breath in my house in days. Stepping outside into the heat of the morning feels like walking into a dryer that has been spinning for hours. Heading to the pool helps but only some and at the other extreme, standing on an elevated LIRR platform feeling closer to the heat source doesn’t help at all. This …
It was a fairly normal commute on the LIRR yesterday morning, albeit a little late after a morning breakfast meeting. I was happily engrossed in my Ipad, instant messaging with my office, when a symphony of sounds made me jump. All of a sudden my phone and the phones of at least a dozen other people on the train around me rang a loud siren. It wa …
You know those moments – the ones that we all pretend never happened. Here is my most recent entry in the “Book of Embarrassment”. Last week I had to be up really early on multiple mornings. Early morning is not my favorite, or best, time. By the end of the week, my morning commute was really just an extension of my nighttime sleep. And then …
Apparently, here is what happened facilitated by a cell phone and You Tube. It was a long train ride, very long. A man sitting mostly by himself was engrossed in a cell phone call. We have all been there. One of those calls that the whole train can hear, word for word, intonation for intonation. This call was personal in nature, very personal, an …
My blog today was supposed to be about how much fun we all had together at our 11th Annual Golf Outing. Instead, we were rained out and so I cannot write that blog. 11 years ago when we started this outing, I mostly dreaded the idea. Don’t get me wrong. I thoroughly enjoyed the company (and the food) but my absolute and complete lack of any skil …
With graduation season upon us, it seems everyone has a word of advice for a college graduate. Oprah told the 2013 class at Harvard University “It doesn’t matter how far you might rise, at some point you're bound to stumble," she said. "And when you do, there is something I want you to remember. No such thing as failure. Failure is just life tr …
Driving around my neighborhood on Memorial Day, I made the following observation. My house was the only one displaying the American flag. A little disconcerting. Growing up, my father religiously put the flag out on our front porch in Brooklyn on Memorial Day, July Fourth and probably a few other holidays during the year. I don’t really remember …
Prom season is upon us. Dresses -- matching tuxedos – flowers – dates -- pre-party – limos -- after-party -- and the list continues Growing up in Brooklyn, I did not experience any aspect of prom season for the simple reason that we did not have one. But living now on Long Island, the role of prom as a rite-of-passage comes through loud and clea …
I tend to write long cards on all of the various occasions, birthdays, anniversaries, and everything in between. So does my daughter. But my son has seemed to master the impact of the short message. His handmade card this Mother’s Day, on bright green construction paper and written in multiple colored markers, read: “You are the best mom a child …
I tend to write long cards on all of the various occasions, birthdays, anniversaries, and everything in between. So does my daughter. But my son has seemed to master the impact of the short message. His handmade card this Mother’s Day, on bright green construction paper and written in multiple colored markers, read: “You are the best mom a child …
My regular every-other-Sunday manicure ritual this week included some interesting conversation with Fran. Fran and I both had a bit of a wait. As we sat together on the bench, she turned to show me a letter she was holding from the Jewish War Veterans organization. “Do you know them?” she asked, with a glimmer in her eye and inviting me to ask …
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