If you're wondering what to give that someone special for the holidays, here's one that just says...I love you (in a wierd kind of way:)   An entire South Dakota ghost town called Swett (puns included), complete with its own watering hole, is on sale for $250,000. The roughly 6-acre town includes a tavern, three-bedroom house and a former tire shop about 100 miles southeast of Rapid City, South Dakota.  

This is a shout out for 2 Gotham Committees with which I recently worked:  The Gotham Film Festival Committee (Chaired by Steven Skyles-Mulligan plus Cayce Crown, Judy Mauer and Gideon Schein) and the Gotham Green Awards Committee (Co Chaired by Corey Bearak and Josh Zinder plus Group Coordinator Sherry Rivera).  Against tense deadline pressure each Committee produced triumphant events which made Gotham proud. 

Flo and I were cleaning her mother's house in anticipation of the closing. The house that Flo and her brothers grew up in. The house where her parents spent almost sixty years. There was a lifetime in that house. I was packing the breakfront and I came to the crystal. There was a set of tall water glasses, wine glasses, and both large and small stemmed dessert glasses.

I am a great believer in Gotham. I am not a believer in one of Gotham's mottos. I know it is not better to give, than receive. It's exactly the same. Giving. Receiving. The exact same.

As I write this, Cyber Monday is coming to a close. You know, that day meant for fuzzy slippers on your feet, a cup of coffee in one hand and your computer mouse in the other.

  My younger children were home from college this week. And I have to admit that, for us, family time is all about food.    

The news the other day reported that pillow fights are now banned. They are causing too many injuries.   No, this was not about pillow fights at the Alpha Delta Pi sorority, or the local junior high schoo pajama partyl. And it was not Victoria's Secret banning pillow fighting photo shoots - heaven forbid. It is coming from the superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point.  

I enjoy Thanksgiving. It's the one holiday where there's no pressure to give presents or act in a certain way. It's about giving thanks and being grateful for what you have.   I sat around the table last Thursday looking at my family. Although everyone wasn't there, it was nice. I looked at my Mom and hoped this wasn't the last one she'll see. I'm not even sure she'll remember this in a couple days when I see here again. But no matter, we are here....breathing, alive and for the most part, enjoying each other while eating some delicious food.