I quite unexpectedly missed an event last week due to an unforeseen circumstance. I called the host the next day to more fully explain my absence and apologize. While on the phone we chatted about the event. In discussing the event he mentioned an off-color comment one of the guests made. I quickly responded, “That’s offensive.” His response was …
In the last two weeks, my daughter made us proud again. A few months back, I shared how Marisa placed an op-ed and State Senator Toby Stavisky called me to advise she is sharing that commentary with her colleagues. Earlier this month, the legislation Marisa wrote in support of passed the State Legislature. I posted to X congrats to my daughter …
It's true, elephants know where to shop. In Thailand this week, one named Plai Biang Lek casually wandered into a grocery store. Surveillance and social media videos show the elephant strolling in, as if he had a shopping list, calmly stopping at the counter, and helping himself to nine bags of sweet rice crackers, a sandwich, and some dried banana …
Maggie Olive Klein, daughter of my son David and wife Julie, is my second born grandchild and first female in my line. When my mother first set eyes upon her she excitedly exclaimed (at her look alike) "Who does she look like?"Oft times, I greet Maggie exclaiming "Who does she look like?" In recognition and memory of my beautiful mom. Beauty asid …
Juneteenth. Realizing the significance of the day - and that it has finally received the appropriate official national recognition it deserves - I search for its meaning to me.Do we take freedom for granted? I pause and consider the significance of realizing that you are free.I am reminded of my mother’s story. After being restricted in the Lodz gh …
As we all come out of Father's Day weekend, I wanted to share a thought about "family". I have come to realize, (with much reminding by my wonderful partner Stewart) that family is not just blood relations. For instance, this past weekend we traveled to Texas. The main impetus of the trip originally was to surprise my best friend of some 45 years …
We had such a nice Father’s Day weekend. It started with a “surprise” visit from our son and his fiancé, continued with lots of family time and a super great gift from our daughter (hint – there is a Dad Joke theme in my house). And of course, lots of good food. It ended with an annual family gathering we have been enjoying for more years than I …
Our cable tv went out last Tuesday morning. We did not even notice it until 11:00 p.m. when we went to turn on the local network news. Our cable company’s response time was, surprisingly quick. They determined that it was probably the box and sent a new one via overnight mail. The cable, however, was still not working after we installed the new …
About a month ago in between a lovely Bar Mitzvah service for a friend's grandson in Dobbs Ferry and the evening reception in Hastings on the Hudson, Shelly and I visited with our son Jonathan and his lovely wife, Carrie at their apartment in the Greystone section of Yonkers, above five minutes from the reception. Somehow the discussion turned to …
It’s kind of wild to think about—early humans worked because they had to. If you didn’t grow it, build it, or catch it, you didn’t survive. Your labor was life. Today, most of us are far removed from the work that sustains us. Our food, clothes, and everyday essentials are made by hands we’ll never see, on farms, in factories, in different countr …
In our family 13 is a lucky number, as it is the date upon which my wife Joanne was born. Throughout our relationship, everyone has always reinforced this reality by telling me how "lucky" I have been to be with her and, more than anyone else, I readily agree!In addition, for many years my law firm thrived on the 13th floor, I came of age at 13 an …
Rudyard Kipling, is his famous poem “If” got it right.“If” is the most consequential word in our language, and in our lives.
Follow up to a prior blog about Spring get-away inquiries, my wife and I landed on a long weekend out in Sag Harbor. This turned out to be our "baby moon"...did not know this was a thing until she found "bloggers" talking about on social media [blogging works!]. In any event, we've stopped through Sag Harbor several times in the past for lunch but …
Following in the footsteps and by the examples of our stellar Manhattan and LI Dinner groups, as I write my blog this evening, I am getting ready for a fun LI Womens meeting tomorrow. I am sitting here with an envelope full of questions on little slips of paper ranging from – “If you were an animal, what would you be?” to “What is your least favo …
Both Nancy and Mitch wrote about AI this week. I just had to add my recent experience. I was following up with two mediation clients, both of whom are highly successful professionals. At the previous session we had ended with a discussion as to whether one of them would rather take part of their equitable distribution in the form of a credit towa …
