Here's a way to avoid the extra bag charge if you're flying...wear all your clothes. Silly I know, but someone actually tried this. James McElvar, 19, of the boy band Rewind fell ill after attempting to avoid a $70 luggage charge by wearing all of this clothes on an EasyJet flight. The singer collapsed on the plane due to heat exhaustion. McLev …
The Pope's visit evoked memories. My mother was Catholic and she baptized me. In 1963 I visited the Vatican and bought a St. Christopher's medal for my mom. I kept a diary and on 7/14/63 I wrote that I then "went to St. Peter's Square to get it blessed along with countless others. At precisely 12 noon the window opened and Pope Paul appeared dresse …
The sign read “No Parking - Friday Midnight - Monday 6am”. She parked on Thursday evening and found a ticket on her windshield on Friday morning. The ticket was issued at 12:06 a.m. on Friday. We all know what Midnight means....or do we? That moment between one day and the next. Lawyers tend to try to avoid confusion -- opting for “11:59 p.m.” or …
DEADLINE APPROACHING!! I am replaying my post about our FIFTH ANNUAL FILM FESTIVAL to make sure every tribe member gets a chance to hear about it. Please spread the word, we only have a couple of weeks until the deadline. More below. It's getting to be that time of year again. The website has just gone LIVE and we have a Facebook page ! Yes, I'm …
Amongst my friends I admit that my husband I take frequent selfies. Amongst my friends I also admit that they are mostly pretty awful. My kids run the other way when the camera comes out because apparently we are embarrassing. This past weekend, we reached the epitome of selfie embarrassment. On two different occasions, we were attempting to ta …
I thought I would follow Don’s lead and write about a topic which concerns my head. When I am asked whether I would cut my hair, my answer is usually the same, “Never. I am my hair.” And, while my response may sound comical, there is some seriousness in my answer. I cannot imagine ever cutting my hair short, changing the current color, or …
The Times carried an article recently about the possibilities of performing a head transplant. No, this was not an editorial about the Republican debate. There is an Italian doctor who says that by 2017 he will be able to perform this procedure. He even has a volunteer patient. This is not a new idea. A number of times since the early 1900s doc …
Anybody see the Pope? Pope Francis is the 266th and current Pope of the Catholic Church, a title he holds ex officio as Bishop of Rome, and Sovereign of the Vatican City has come to town. A seemingly very kind man he heads up the largest business in the world. It has more than 1.25 billion members worldwide. Pope Francis also the head of what’s p …
This is a follow up to last week's Friday With Fred blog wherein I heralded last Friday night's Mets-Yanks Mania and anticipated a great night communing in our "special" center field bleacher seats with 124 other Gothamites. In the words of Gothamite Ellyne Finklestein it was "A perfect match up. Weather couldn't be better. 125 Bull pen seats fille …
I first felt it about a week ago. An evening breeze and the question of whether I should have taken a light sweater with me. A few days later, it was there in the morning. The crispness that was the bellwether of things to come. The acorns from the oak trees up the block. Plummeting cars like hail forcing neighbors to move their cars from their …
From the HuffPost: "An Oklahoma mother alleges that a teacher at her 4-year-old son's school was told to stop writing with his left hand because that's the hand Satan uses. Okemah resident Alisha Sands, 30, said she asked her son Zayde -- who normally writes with his left hand -- why he was using his right hand to complete his homework. "I just as …
I asked my daughter this afternoon what time she had to “be in laden”. My husband asked me later, “Am I bringing you pizza?” Hint: Although I really like pizza, I was at work and he was heading to pick up my son. I asked my sister “What’s new?” and she said “Nothv”. And of course, I can never ever text “Oy” because it invariably ends up …
I know the whole Tom Brady/Deflategate controversy is fundamentally over, but I am still curious as to what people thought about it. Essentially, Tom Brady was reinstated only because the Judge found that the NFL did not follow the procedure required by the collective bargaining agreement. No decision was made by the Federal Court as to the facts …
Pumping gas the other evening after coming home on the late side, a woman came bouncing out of the convenience store, looked at me as she passed, and yelled "SMILE!" She was judging me. I wondered if I go around looking like a grouch, though I have to admit that at that time I was feeling a little grouchy. It must have showed. So I smiled back …
I'm blogging live from Citifield and the score is 1-1 in the 6th inning. The chant is up...Lets go Mets...Lets go Yankees. I don't know who's going to win. I hope it's the Yankees. I'm with 124 fellow Gothamites and their friends and families. The game is sold out with good playoff possibilities for both teams. A beautiful night, perfect we …
