My full given name is Fred C. Klein and the C. might as well stand for Chip as I am so addicted to them that I well might be made of them. Then, last week I sat next to my fellow Friar and New York Health and Aging GC Gideon Schein and right away I noticed his appreciable weight loss and, of course, always looking for a dieting SECRET, I asked him …
I was driving home and was cut off by an SUV driver who decided not to make the left turn she was signaling from the left-turn lane and cut back into traffic. I slammed on my brakes to avoid hitting her, sending things in the car that weren’t bolted down flying. I blasted my horn – realizing as I did that it wouldn’t make a difference. A moment lat …
So I thought I'd see what was "trending" on Google, so I could write a really up-to-date blog post. Here's what I found. 1. Hamilton Chicago - Tickets are going for $9000. 2. Michael Jackson - Stockpiles of violent porn at Neverland Ranch 3, Lauri Peterson - Never heard of her, but she's on Real Housewives and her son is suspected of attempted murd …
Friday afternoon I was busily working away at my laptop. To be completely honest, I was multi-tasking – talking on my cell phone, sending an instant message and reading an email. Really, I am not sure how I was doing all of those things and probably wasn’t really. But all of a sudden my mouse froze the computer. It wasn’t going anywhere and …
They say when something happens to your child you feel it worse than if it happened to you. I found that to be true last week. My youngest daughter, Sydney, was driving home from school in Buffalo last week. After dropping her friends off in Westchester, she called me on the blue tooth in her car to tell me she would be home in about an hour an …
Pets never made a regular presence at "Grand Junction," the name (my daughter) Marisa gave our place on Four Square. Occasionally we watched my nephew Douglas' hamsters; that seems ages ago. One of the four-legged variety seems capable of infusing himself as if he lived here each visit: Our niece Tara's little dog, Jackson. He seems very …
I am here. I am healthy. I am strong. The first third of my life started out as a 4.5 lb baby with life threatening congenital problems that in other countries would have resulted in my demise. The second third of my life started out with my world in complete collapse due to a set of events that made me an uneducated, broke, single parent of two …
We have all been captive inside a mechanized telephone maze. Nothing infuriates me more than the frustration of the urgent need to get through to the party I've called, but being put in the holding pen. Invariably, the delay becomes interminable as the loop interrupts the cheesy elevator music to proclaim "your call is important to us please stay o …
Renovations of the bathrooms in our offices were recently completed. In addition to the clean new look, I noticed the new high powered hand dryer and the new paper towel dispenser which dispensed smaller sheets than I remembered. I began to take notice and observed many more high powered hand dryers in public restrooms. Some were side-by-side pap …
These three men have eased my pain and I am able to love life more this week because of them. No one is more surprised than me. Lin Manuel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FnAvhvZXdo POTUS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntF-ieEOgkM Andrew Cuomo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peRK0NnexX0&feature=youtu.be We believe in New York that …
So many lives lost. So much senseless killing. So much suffering. Watching the news unfolding on Sunday morning, I was struck by one mother. She had no idea where her son was. He went out for an evening of entertainment but early in the morning the world had changed. Her excruciating pain, fear and raw emotion were everywhere. Every interview …
Thank you to my friend Lorraine Brennan for inspiring this blog. This blog is not about politics. This blog is about history. Throughout my career I have seen or have been the victim of blatant acts of sexism. I began my career in a "white shoe" law firm where the only female partner-- out of thirty five-- broke her water at her desk while p …
I shared a few blogs ago plans to see Al Kooper at BB Kings. Concerts generally invigorate and Thursday night proved no exception. Al went deep into his catalogue with solo (just Al and his keys) versions of songs from the very first (and best) Blood, Sweat & Tears LP, “A Child Is Father To The Man.” The LP title perhaps resonates more …
Yesterday Muhammad Ali was laid to rest and a parade of speakers, famous and not so famous, eulogized this man. From Senator Orin Hatch to Billy Crystal to President Bill Clinton they all had words that were meaningful, funny and sad. It was an amazing service. Most people don't remember that he was not well liked by a great majority of the count …
We were recently winding down our Memorial Day Weekend vacation and starting to experience that all too familiar gnawing feeling of return to the real world anxieties and problems. Just then I spied the words "Harkuna Matata" written under a wooden bridge covering a pool lap lane. I looked up the meaning of those words and what a perfectly timed …
