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Corey Bearak
Apr30
Playin' in the band
Posted By : Corey Bearak

I enjoy teamwork.   From playing basketball many a time, I see one or more players complaining about the sides we make.   We really endeavor to balance things.   I look beyond the sum of individual talents and the try to weigh the chemistry of the team; how they work together, find open players, make the right pass, set that monster pick, roll to t

Mitch Tobol
Apr29
Watch out for those water bills
Posted By : Mitch Tobol

Another funny and true story comes to us from Michigan this week.   A Michigan village clerk, Julie Glenn, sent a couple their water bill addressed to the woman "and the [expletive] who lives here too." (see below)     Ms Glenn ended up sending a letter of apology to Annette Tolis and Kevin Barthel after they noticed the profane insult in the wate

Fred Klein
Apr28
Magic Moments
Posted By : Fred Klein

My son David and I have played on the Gotham Batmen softball team for many years.  I am the Batmen pitcher and David plays alongside me at third base. Last week the umpire asked me my age and after telling him I then pointed out that my son was also on the team.  At the end of the next inning the ump called David and me over and, surprisingly, put

Benjamin Geizhals
Apr27
Remembering and Wondering
Posted By : Benjamin Geizhals

Last Sunday, I attended the annual Commemoration of the Holocaust at Temple Emanu-El in New York. I watched, as I have for so many years, my Mother light a memorial candle with other survivors. We remembered. During the ceremony, survivors were honored and as I listened to their stories, a theme resonated. The majority recounted how they fled and

Cayce Crown
Apr26
Fair Warning
Posted By : Cayce Crown

Gotham meetings are like a box of chocolates... you never know what you're going to get. But it is ALWAYS going to be interesting. At Gotham MAD yesterday, among all the wonderful people who attended, was Lucas Hunt, Auctioneer (guest of the Battle of the Bands judge, David Mack). Fred, being Fred and always wanting a new experience, asked him to a

Nancy Schess
Apr24
My Favorite Wine
Posted By : Nancy Schess

  I have a particular taste in wine. Most who know anything about wine at all, (mostly) politely chuckle when I order.     My standing question to a server or a bartender is – “What is the sweetest white wine you have on your menu?” Ideally, the answer is a sweet Riesling or even better a Moscato. [I did learn about Ice Wine not that long ago bu

Rona Gura
Apr24
DeCompressing
Posted By : Rona Gura

On Friday morning I started, what will be, a  long custody trial. As most lawyers will tell you, trial work can be emotionally and physically exhausting as well as mentally challenging. You really have to be “on” 100% of the time throughout the entire proceeding. Custody trials, by their nature, can be emotionally draining not only on the litigants

Corey Bearak
Apr23
Music Brings Us Together so join us at Gotham's Battle of the Bands®
Posted By : Corey Bearak

Next Sunday, one day following the First 100 days of the current administration, Gotham hosts its annual Battle of the Bands. Discussions about politics tend towards controversy and division. Music tends to bring people of different persuasions together.   Friday I posted the text of my presentation last Wednesday eve hosted by the Gotham Exec

Mitch Tobol
Apr22
Our privilege
Posted By : Mitch Tobol

In honor of Earth day today, I thought I might share some interesting facts:   • First celebrated in 1970, Earth Day is now is observed in over 190 countries.   • In 1969, peace activist John McConnell proposed a day to honor the Earth and the concept of peace, to be celebrated on March 21, 1970, the first day of spring in the northern hemisphe

Fred Klein
Apr21
I Feel Good!
Posted By : Fred Klein

I have learned why I have become addicted to my iPhone and Social Media.   For background, please read my Friday With Fred blog of two weeks ago: I'm Addicted. It seems that when one garners a Facebook "Like" or comment it stimulates the body to produce the chemical dopamine and when that happens, as the great James Brown exclaimed, "I Feel Good!"I

Benjamin Geizhals
Apr20
Little Things
Posted By : Benjamin Geizhals

At Tuesday's meeting of the Long Island Women's Group, the guest speaker, Joshua Lafazan, told us how, as a high school student, he started an anti drunk driving program that provided safe and free rides to students to avoid driving while intoxicated or being a passenger. Three hundred and fifty rides were provided in 2016. This relatively sm

Cayce Crown
Apr19
Words
Posted By : Cayce Crown

Recently its been coming up more and more, the importance of using your words carefully and intentionally. In my life, I've been pretty careless with words. I was raised in a clever, articulate, SARCASTIC household - mix in a little alcohol (maybe not a little) and you get desensitized to how things feel to others. I admire Fred's ability to love

Nancy Schess
Apr17
By Far The Hardest Speech
Posted By : Nancy Schess

  If you know me at all, you know that I am not afraid of a podium or a microphone. But the process of preparing a eulogy for my father, someone who I have always looked up to and admired, was unlike any preparation I had done in the past. I kept hearing Fred in my head. He won’t remember this, but years ago I remember Fred talking about the imp

Rona Gura
Apr17
Not Good Patient Behavior
Posted By : Rona Gura

I always thought of myself as a good patient. I rarely, if ever, take a sick day from work. In fact, I do not recall the last time I did. I push myself to get whatever I need to get finished, no matter how I feel.   Sunday, I woke up with an apparent stomach virus. I stayed in my room most of the day in my pajamas, alternating between complaining,

Corey Bearak
Apr16
Strange Days, Indeed
Posted By : Corey Bearak

The Doors second LP, Strange Days, featured a song, People Are Strange.   Strange days indeed as one consider the world around us (More on that later.).   I strategize. I plan.   Not all the time but certainly when things matter.   Sometimes, for some matters, I might need to think fast, almost to the point of brinkmanship.   Even where one m