Thinking of golf, thank you Mitch, we have thought about taking it up this year. In the past I have played only twice each season -- once at the Gotham outing, and the second time is with my sons and son in law at the Bernstein Annual Father's Day Golf Tournament. You wouldn't know I only play twice a year with the way I crush my golf cart compan …
It's an exciting time of year, leaves will start to form on trees, flowers will grow and more importantly we get to play golf. Golf season is here and, as I'm sure you know, the Annual Bob Formica Golf & Tennis Outing is right around the corner. But a more important story is emerging from the USTA. On the heels of proposing a ban on belly …
My wife Joanne was my high school girl friend and we have been married 46 years. Among the many many things she brings to our marriage is that of the great "Leveler". She has an inexhaustible capacity to cut through all the spin, puff and noise to bring me down and ground me. This is a not always pleasant for me, but I know it is a good thing as, f …
Between Passover and Easter - a time to reflect on tradition and family. This year was the first year that our generation was the oldest generation at my brother and sister-in-law's seder table. But we were lucky to still have three generations around the table. I remember my son on my father's knee. Now it is my knee. The tradition goes on.
My wife's father has been extremely sick for a while now. Two days ago, his wife, my wife's stepmother went in for brain surgery to remove a tumor. She has additional lung surgery scheduled to follow in a couple of weeks to remove more cancer. Yesterday, her sister passed away who had been battling cancer for only a short while. My father-in-la …
Over dinner Sunday night, my parents were in the mood to tell stories. They repeated for us, with my children at the table, tales of their parents and their parents’ parents – stories I know I have heard before but which somehow sounded new. For example, my dad repeated the story of his father’s father who was a peddler. He died at the hand of a …
Fred’s blog about control a few weeks ago inspired me to think about a related subject, delegating. I was never good at delegating work. I always felt that I could probably do it better and faster myself. I’ve come to realize that my inability to delegate work was tied into my inability to relinquish control over the work. A few years ago, we hir …
There was big news this week, if you get excitied about the origin of the cosmos. It even came with a picture on the front page of the New York Times, what the universe looked like when it was a baby, only a few hunderd thousand years old. They also tell us that the universe is 80 million years older than we thought. All those universe bir …
Dr. Francisco Fernandez-Aviles working at London's Royal Free Hospital has been building replacement parts for human bodies. So far he's "installed" 5 windpipes. A Dr. Seifalian made tear ducts and an artery that are now living inside of people. He's made a nose he intends to use...on a patient who lost his to cancer. And as part of a clinical t …
I recently took the 2 featured photographs:"Murder The Rich" and "Kill Money" The messages are clear. Are they too chilling to ignore?Could there be Revolution in the air?
Today is the beginning of the NCAA basketball tournament -- otherwise often referred to as “March Madness”. I didn't fill out my brackets and selections for the office pool. I participate in two office pools: one is a lottery pool and the other is the Superbowl pool. Both of these pools are completely random -- a function of luck and chance. Un …
Recently Rob Portman, Senator and perennial presidential candidate wrote an op-ed piece for CNN. He not only announced a philosophical change in his belief on gay marriage, but also described the intellectual process by which the change occurred. This is not a piece debating gay marriage, but rather a discussion on breathing room and tolerance for …
Let’s start with, I hate that word . . .”perfect”. Perfect doesn’t really exist but this weekend for me it did. My son was bar mitzvahed this weekend. And, the entire weekend was everything that we could have hoped for. Pride in his accomplishments, pleasure in being able to celebrate with our family and friends, and more than one good meal. …
It was an event we were happily anticipating for several weeks. I should, actually, say that we had been anticipating this event for several years because I remember distinctly where and when I was told about this event. And since I don’t remember much these days, that’s saying a lot. The event was on Saturday night. My husband and I were all dre …
I think my wife may be leaving me. You know when you just have a hunch about something, and find little signs? It is for Justin Timberlake. She seems to be watching his music videos a lot lately and smiling and talking about him. I am not even sure he knows it yet, but she is coming. I have to say that it is not a bad choice, especially wit …
