As a fifteen year old boy, my son could spend literally all day in front of that game console. It calls his name. Truth be told, there has been more than one conflict in our house in an effort to limit the amount of time he spends engaged with that machine. A few days ago, Eric turned the machine off, packed up the games (no easy feat), and mo …
In discussing the internet with our kids, as parents, we try to warn them about all the dangers of the internet. I have never really found myself talking about the good aspects about the internet and social media. This past week I experienced one of the best characteristics of the internet. I came to learn that it has truly made the world a smaller …
A friend is down in Tampa cleaning out the aparment of an elderly lady. She is in her mid-90s and is in an assisted living facility. He is her advisor and the named executor of her estate. He said it is a rather depressing job to clean up decades of her stuff. I asked him how she is doing. Pretty well, he said, the only thing she cares about i …
I've been very active most of my life and have suffered fractures, ligament issues, hyperextensions, bruises, sprains, etc. I've usually bounced back from these injuries in a relatively short time feeding my body with the right nutrients and careful excercise that have always brought me back to 100%. This time it's quite different. It's reeeaalll …
Did you ever notice in old black-and-white photographs how short the old people are? My mother was under 5 feet tall and my father just over 5 feet. Thus, it was grounds for rejoicing when I continued to grow into my 20s to my Apogee of 5 feet 9 3/4 inches. Now, however, approximately a half a century later I have receded to 5'7". It's not s …
I recently received an email from an art gallery which, for some reason, keeps me on its email list. The email announced the birth of a second child to one of the gallery. The email was replete with pictures of the happy family and newborn baby. I was reminded of a friend who told me that he got his wife to go to baseball games by talking about …
Just read today that Barack Obama gave Shell Oil the OK to drill for oil in the Arctic. The idea is, not much going on down there and vast reserves of oil and natural gas. How can this be a good thing? How can our government be so out of touch with the natural world? How can they not know the planet is connected? Shell has not shown itself to be re …
So, what do you think? Did Tom Brady deserve to be suspended? If so, how do you feel about 4 games? Did the Patriots deserve the $1 million fine? And how does Tom Brady’s four game “deflategate” suspension compare to the NFL’s initial two game suspension of Ray Rice for beating his soon to be wife? I have a lot of questions today.
I had one of “those” nights the other night. We’ve all had them. As time ticks away my eyes wouldn’t close. I saw 2:00 a.m. pass by and then 3:00 pass by. And, as time continued to tick by, my anxiety about being well rested for my early morning court appearance grew steadily. What do you do when you can’t sleep?
The first lines of Dante's classic Inferno, part one of the three part Divine Comedy, are: "Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway has been lost." And that is the good part. The succeeding cantos of The Inferno take the reader down deeper into the rings of Hell and lower depth …
Start a micronation. You can print your own stamps and even money. There are about 98 active micronations across the planet from Australia to Antartica. They are not officially recongnized by the government but that doesn't stop them from trying. They even had a conference this year...Micro Con 2015. Here are some of the micronations that attende …
Following up on last week's blog, I was honored last Friday by the Russo family Theresa Foundation. One of the honoree responsibilities is to help raise donations to the Foundation. I am very pleased to report that with the help of our Gotham Networking Tribe we broke the previous record by 25%. This was very satisfying and I thank everyone involv …
I don't consider myself to be a fashion statement; although the other day an adversary told me that my tie reminded her of a Klimt painting as we digressed to a brief discussion of the movie Woman in Gold. Recently, with Flo’s encouragement and support, I have ventured into the frontier of expressive men’s socks. I have joined the ranks of many …
Have you been? I had the great good fortune to have to take a bunch of people there just this week. One of the things I find most inspiring about it is, unlike most museums, at Ellis Island you actually walk where the immigrants walked, you can sit on the benches they sat on, you can almost hear those mispronounced names shouted and the 21 differen …
Well, not really dangerous in the technical sense of the word. When I am at the gym, I am partial to a particular bicycle. Not because of its speed or comfort but because it is situated closest to the television where Planet Fitness plays its infomercial channel. I admit to being an infomercial addict. When I was younger, I bought all of my …
