A full page in the Times on Friday advertised a coming auction at Sotheby's of a Mark Rothko painting. It is called No. 21 (Red, Brown, Black and Orange). Here is a picture of it. Not being a student of modern art, I have not heard of Rothko though apparently he is one of the most famous post war American artists along with Andy Warhol, Jackso …
Malala Yousafzai became the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize ever at 17 years old. If you remember, she was shot in an attempted assination because she was going to school. At that time she was 11 years old and rebelling against the Taliban's orders for all girls to wear burqas and stay home. The Nobel committee also awarded the Peace Pri …
In addition to this weekly creative outlet I also utilize Facebook daily. Last week I posted the above photo along with the words "Until one has loved an animal part of their soul remains unawakened".Truth be told, they are not my words, but the tag line of our Pet Insurance company. Whatever their origin, these words muster up and describe an inne …
A friend of mine was riding his bicycle, albeit in the “wrong” direction, in a bike lane in the City a few weeks ago. He was stopped by a policeman for riding the wrong way and was asked for identification. Unfortunately, my friend didn't have any identification on him or in his bike pack. One thing led to another -- although I have no reason t …
Yesterday, a woman in my wife's office lost a young baby to SIDS after about 3 or so weeks. I am not blogging about this for sympathy or condolences. I only know her briefly as a co-worker of my wife. I can't imagine a much more horrific scenario in life. I do not need comments for this blog, I simply wanted to state in public how incredible an …
I am not spending enough time in the gym. It’s really that simple. With a long work day and worse, a commute on both ends, time to get to the gym during the week just doesn’t seem to be happening. I know I am not the only one with this problem. We all struggle with not having enough time in the day. For those of you who have figured out how to ad …
About a year ago, I wrote a blog about a memorandum which was sent to only the female attorneys in one of the largest law firms in the world. The memorandum was created by the firm’s Women’s Committee in order to improve their female associates’ presentation skills. Included in the memorandum were “tips” such as, “Your friends will still like you …
I wrote what I thought was a really good blog this morning. I had to do it through Explorer because for whatever reason Firefox does not let me post on the Gotham blog page. Just as I finished, my computer said Explorer is no longer working, and suddendly it all disappeared. I can't recreate it and am very frustrated. So no blog today from …
If you watch TED talks, I would recommend taking a look at Angela Duckworth's discussion on the formost predictor of success and I would guess it's not what you think. She studied Chicago public schoolchildren from a wide variety of social and ecnonomic situations. "It wasn't talent or brains. It wasn't social intelligence. It wasn't good looks. …
The age old question is: If you could have one thing would it be money, fame or power? What would it be for you and for what reasons?I know what it is for me and will chime in at the end of the day. Weigh in please!
Well, they seem to be working. The cameras in school zones that generate tickets for exceeding the school zone speed limit. There is one such zone on a road that I travel very frequently. After the initial onslaught of tickets, and the publicity about the cameras, motorists being caught unaware and early flaws resulting in many, many unwarrante …
It is a frightening story. The the head of the CDC seemed to be trying to convince us that we shouldn't be as afraid as he assumed we would be. It's probably a good assumption. Yes, Ebola has finally passed through the preverbial microbiological Ellis Island and exposed itself here in the United States. The first ever reported case has been …
I can’t believe I am even writing this blog. Sports commentary is very much outside my comfort zone. But I did see the hit and it looked really bad. Today's question is should the Michigan football coach have taken sophmore quarterback Shane Morris out of the game after what appeared to be a concussion inducing hit – after which Morris exhibited …
Memory is a funny thing. There are some things I have a lot of trouble remembering. Several times a week, I’ll find myself walking into the pantry in my house or the file room in my office only to forget what I went in to get. And five minutes after I take my daily vitamin, I find myself trying to remember whether, in fact, I actually took the pill …
The most human part of Jeter's last home game the other night was during his post game interview when he said he was so out of sorts that he was hoping no one would hit it to him at short stop. "Please don't hit it to me," he said he was thinking. Imagine that. The great Captain, of whom we have so many images of rocketing the ball to first bas …
