On my work from home days, I try very hard to tell myself to stand up, take a walk, get outside – even for just a few minutes. Yet these days, I am failing. Just too busy, which is not a complaint but sometimes an interference. Any tips out there Gotham friends? How do you make sure that you take a healthful break during the day?
Supermarkets are often hurried places with the routine of shoppers, carts moving, and register lines that seem to never move quickly enough. It is usually a place where people come to quickly purchase their essentials and leave. But sometimes, in the most unexpected places, we stumble upon moments of pure joy. It happened to me on a routine groc …
Generally, we take in a Broadway musical in October. Yesterday we ventured in the afternoon to the Neil Simon Theatre to take in MJ. This Michael Jackson musical focused on the music and how Michael evolved and grew as an artist. It took up some issue and alluded to others. I found the music and choreography superb. It covered much of the Jac …
Dogs are wonderful creatures. They are fantastic pets (for the most part). And their "number two" needs to be picked up and bagged. I'm really glad my neighbors pick it up, however, they drop that lovely bag in my garbage can...and it's stinky, even when bagged. It's not my dog, why should I have to put up with that? I find this rude (in my opini …
Two good Yankee fans who are also friends are Paul Napolitano and Jason Greenberg. In fact, we share a text chain where we gossip about sports and other important issues of the day. Last summer we fell to discussing Joey Gallo, a unique former, non favorite, Yankee ball player. Joey is unique in an obscure negative way as, mostly, he either str …
As we approach this weekend, we follow weather forecasts and wonder “rain or shine?” Will this be the seventh weekend in a row that is “rained out”? Perhaps rendered numb by the past weekends, (or are we wiser and learning to adapt?) we move ahead with our plans —- Rain or Shine.
I have been a member of a study group for several years. Recently, we decided to engage in a year-long project focused on how we listen and hear others. As part of the “homework” we each keep a journal - every day writing down something we learned from someone else. I’ve taking that a step further and will make what I learn the subject of my Fa …
How many of you still pay your child’s cell phone bill? I know this is a regular conversation amongst my friends. Mind you, we are not talking about teenagers around this table but rather grown adults. This past weekend, out of the blue, my son called to say he needed our mobile account password because he was switching phone carriers and taki …
To me, there are two types of people in the world, those who like to clean and those who do not. I fall into the latter category; I am not a cleaner. My mother was a world class cleaner. My siblings, my father, and I used to joke that she would follow each of us around the house holding a sponge so she could clean as we were physically making the m …
1973 was a good year. Some of my fave LPs were released that year (Eat A Peach, Harvest, Times Fase Away, Yessongs, A Good Feelin’ To Know which I selected for this blog’s pic), among others). A year I saw great shows by Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers, Led Zeppelin, New Riders, Dave Mason, Roger McGuinn and Jethro Tull among others). It was s …
According to the CDC’s National Health Interview Survey, which has been tracking American telephone use since 2003, fewer than 30 percent of American adults lived in a home with a landline phone last year. Those who still have one may have set it up ages ago—more than half of Americans over the age of 65 rely on landlines, and fewer than 2 percent …
My daughter in law, Julie Klein, is a Reference Librarian at our local Bryant Library. One of her responsibilities is to foster and coordinate Author/Book discussions. Recently, in that role, she asked me to introduce two authors who happen to be my friends: Alan Zweibel (original Saturday Night Live writer and recipient of 5 Emmys, amongst countl …
Last weekend, we joined about 24 members of the Metropolitan Contemporary Glass Group for our annual trip to visit a place of interest for studio glass. This year the destination was Providence, Rhode Island.We visited the Rhode Island School of Design’s glass department, one of the most prestigious and influential glass studios and several promine …
This past weekend I had my first "Parent Weekend" at my sons college, University of Delaware. I have 2 other younger boys so there will be others in the years to come. Its a right of passage, for him and for my wife and I. As he gets older so do we. As he matures, gains more experience in life and grows, so do we as parents. It was scary to see som …
Well, he is pretty darned cute. You may all remember (or not) about two years ago we welcomed Hudson, my first grand puppy, to the family. Yes, I was and continue to be a little obsessed. Many of my friends are at the grandchildren stage. We are not. Instead, we have grandpuppies. And so with that, welcome Walter! Walter became a member …
