I enjoy watching the Olympics. I'm always amazed at the dedication, drive and committment these athletes make to test their skills and athletic prowess once every four years. The sheer beauty of the venue, athletes and host country is truly spectacular. However, as Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel reported on their recent show about the IOC and t …
Last Sunday I had the best turkey sandwich I've ever tasted in my life. The fresh turkey was moist and it had (our) garden fresh tomatoes, spicy Dijon mustard and crispy lettuce blanketing it on a seeded soft roll. See photo. It was having a party in my mouth! Yum! Thanks and props to the maker (Jo) from the eater!
The games of summer. "Connect Four", "Air Hockey" and "Skee Ball". Remember them? Recently, "Connect Four" re-entered our lives. We have the travel-size and it's perfect on our trips. Flo likes to pack it when we travel and challenges me to a game or two, which becomes the "best of five" or "best of seven". There's a game room in the Marriott in G …
...UP! After 12 years in Chelsea, I am downsizing physically and fiscally, so that my business can expand creatively. It continues to amaze me in how tiny a footprint I can run my life. I am made for Manhattan living and working. My current office is 10x17, my new office is 7x7. My new neighborhood is Madison and 29th, other than the magnificent …
If you missed it today, I hope you will put our golf outing on your calendar for next year. It was a terrific day filled with good friends, new friends, great food and amazing weather. OK, it was a little warm, but the sun was shining all day and the club could not have been more accommodating. A special thank you to Norman Spizz who worked …
A close friend of our family got engaged Friday afternoon. How did we find out? Within minutes of her engagement, pictures of her hand wearing her new ring went up on Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook etc. Moments later, as I sat at my desk with a client, my phone started exploding with text messages from my family and other close friends telling me th …
By the time this commentary appears on the Gotham (City Networking, Inc. ®) website, Shelly and I arrived back from Mystic, CT to our home aptly named “Grand Junction” by Marisa who gave our home that “nom de 'net” on FourSquare. Marisa chose Grand Junction, a place in Colorado, from a Poco instrumental of the same name written by pedal steel guit …
Now two pools at the Olympics have turned green. There's a strange brew going on in that aquatic center. They've shut them down and the athletes are not interested in diving into green water. Although the "commitee" says it's okay, Tom Stenfort tweeted this yesterday... I thought this was Brazil's attempt at doing something different...
Tonight is A Rod's last game. Or is it?After 22 Big League seasons during which he struck 696 home runs while failing two performance enhancing drug tests Alex Rodriguez is a complicated, untruthful tarnished star with a still huge Yankee contract guaranteed through 2017. In an emotional press conference last Sunday A Rod spoke the Yankee party li …
Anyone who vacations on Martha's Vineyard when the President is there has a story to tell. Here's mine. Last Sunday, we were walking down Main Street in Edgartown and I saw a black shoulder bag on a bench in front of the liquor store. I poked my head inside the store to let the clerk know about the bag. He told me that he knew about it, but didn't …
Sometimes the beach is the answer. What is your answer? In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans. - Kahlil Gibran
From opening through closing ceremonies, we love the Olympics. It is a world event intended to show the best of the world stage. Of course, it doesn’t always happen that way but the goal is always the same. We particularly like watching Gymnastics and Swimming. I really like the synchronized diving but the rest of my family is not as intere …
My husband and I did it again last night. In fact we do it quite often. We fantasized about what we would do if we won the lottery (what were you thinking I meant?). When we engage in this discussion, we both admit that quitting our jobs would be the first thing we would do (wouldn’t everyone?). Then we would set up trust accounts for our child …
This past Thursday I pretty much decided on my blog topic; even discussed it briefly with Nancy at the Gotham LI Legal/ LI/ LI Women Cocktail Party that eve. As when I would scope out column topics weeks in advance, even have submissions for an upcoming The Public Ought to Know draft, events induce a change; I suspect a revisit to consideration …
Not being a frequent visitor to Citifield I did not know the parking situation. Fred had suggested I buy a parking pass for the Gotham Met/Yankee game last Monday. Little did I know that it was a magic pass. As we (Jake, Fred, Joanne and I) approached the stadium, we had to pass through a myriad of police, security guard and employee checkpoints. …
