I was at the pool when I peaked at my emails. My good friend Paul (the one married to Victoria) posted an alert from FOX News to Gotham RockRap listerve:  

This is an official warning for all users of canned hair spray.   A Washington state woman returned to her car after work to discover a can of hairspray had exploded and embedded itself in her windshield. Temperatures in the area were only in the low 90s.  

As our communication systems evolve and become ever more sophisticated I believe actual communication suffers.  When I was young we had telephone operators who said "Number please?" and shared our telephone service on a "Party Line".  In those days talking (or just listening) was a treat and a long distance call was cause for excitement and shouting.  Now, alas, things are far different.  When the phone rings now I am told people (you know who you are)

I have been privileged to have been to the Western Wall in Jerusalem several times. There is an awesome and unavoidable sense of history and, for me, a holiness that encompasses the historical and more. There is a custom of inserting little slips of paper inscribed with personal notes, perhaps prayers, in the crevices of the Wall. It was reported that when Donald Trump visited the Wall earlier this week, he followed the custom of leaving a little piece of paper in a crack in the Wall.

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  We all know that networking is amongst the most powerful marketing tools. Success in building your business is directly related to who you know and perhaps more importantly, who knows you.    

I look forward to May and June every year. Not only because those months signal the beginning of summer but there is always so many wonderful events going on during those months; graduations, weddings, bridal showers etc. For us, this May brings us two happy events, my youngest daughter, Sydney’s, college graduation and oldest, Danielle’s, graduation from graduate school.  

Some people can boast of attending Woodstock or Monterrey Pop some renowned concert like George Harrison’s Bengla Desh shows at Madison Square Garden or the Allmans at the Fillmore East or The Band at the Academy of Music (Rock of Ages) or their Last Waltz, o