The recent outbreak of measles has thrown this issue front and center. If you haven't heard, The Washington Post has indentified Disneyland in California as Ground Zero in the current outbreak. I wondered how this could happen and, after tooling around on the internet, I found that there are many parents who don't allow their children to be vacci …
We recently flew out of LaGuardia on Delta and I was amazed by the upscale 21st Century Delta Terminal. We usually fly American from LAG and the contrast was shocking. Shocking! Now I know why LaGuardia has been called a third World airport. Maybe American is third World, but not Delta. Plus Delta has direct flights to Key West!
This past Tuesday marked the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps in 1945. My Mother had been transported from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp a few months earlier. Her “liberation” would not come until a few months later. In conjunction with this anniversary, there has been press …
The talk the past week and a half has been all about Tom Brady, Bill Belichek and the New England Patriots. The Deflate-gate controversy has the entire sports world buzzing (and justifiably many sick of it). We won't even mention the two week-long continuing flurry of "deflated ball" jokes. For those of you who don't follow football, one of t …
It has arrived. The biggest storm ever, so they say. As I write this, it is Monday evening around 8 pm. It is snowing pretty hard out here on Long Island. We are hunkered down ready to spend the day inside tomorrow -- except for Bill and Eric who will have to spend a good amount of time outside shoveling. I suppose that leaves only me ready to …
I am the victim of a cyber-attack. It began almost three years ago when I was forced to make a motion to be relieved as counsel for a client because he owed my firm a significant fee (five figures). Not only did the judge grant my motion but he awarded me every penny of the outstanding fee and stated that the record indicated that my entire represe …
I am computer impaired. Some time ago a glass of water spilled on my Apple laptop. It won't allow me to type upper case and ever time you hit a key you get two letters. Our very old Toshiba laptop just gave up two weeks ago. Something like computer heart failure. And three days ago my office computer made a loud pop, then sizzled and smelled l …
I woke up to the sounds of suburbia...a snow thrower tooling up to move the snow. Lovely. Then a knock at the door. Not just a knock but that four tap knock of familiarity. I thought a neighbor needed help so I quickly threw on some pants, a Tshirt and hurried downstairs only to find no one at the door. I opened it and heard an unfamiliar "Hello? …
According to Wikipedia, sleep is a naturally recurring state characterizedby altered consciousness, relatively inhibited sensory activity and inhibition of nearly all voluntary muscles. Wikipedia goes on to say that during sleep, most systems are in an altered anabolic state accentuating the growth and rejuvenation of the immune, nervous, skeletal …
I expected that it would be an easy flight. I smiled as the family with young children slid into the seats behind us. Two children who were about three or four years old. The father sat in the middle of the three-seat row. The mother, and another child, sat in the same row on the other side of the aisle. Shortly after takeoff, the kicking again …
I remember years ago when the Budweiser ad campaign changed their commercials from "Real American Heroes," to "Real Men Of Genius," in the days following the attack on the WTC. It was a tasteful recognition that the way we thought about the term "Heroes" had changed forever. Monday night I took my 13 year-old son to see the movie American Snip …
When I was growing up we had a dog, a little chocolate brown poodle named “Coco”. The dog was really my sister’s. Truth is, I didn’t really like him. He just wasn’t all that nice. He growled a lot and wouldn’t hesitate to take a bite every so often. Maybe Coco developed a complex because we gave him away when he was young. Here’s how that …
One of my family’s favorite shows is S"hark Tank." In fact, we have, in the past, purchased some of their food products. In catching up on some episodes we missed, one product piqued my interest; cookie baking kits that were comprised of fresh organic ingredients, such as sugar and flour, with each ingredient separately packaged. What interested …
I was touched by a post in the In Memoriam section of the New York Times this week. I cannot comment on it. It speaks powerfully for itself and the grieving father who wrote it. Here it is: "Transcending, ever flowing, my love is with its essence...you. Your endless kindness and compassion still inspiring, your love for others bigger than yo …
From the world of OMG...Designer Alexander Amosu has deisgned two of the most expensive iPhone 6 you can buy. The cost...5.6 million. Talk about a luxury brand. The first one is an iPhone 6 that comes with a cover made of 24-karat rose and yellow gold while the second design is just like the gold plated version, but comes with a crazy four side b …
