Is it a burden, necessary evil or a joy?   Plane flights are an assault on the human body from defrocking at security to squeezing into a seat on the plane. However, the excitement of where you are going helps you tolerate the discomfort.   They try to make you comfortable in seats that give you juuuuust enough room to exist by providing drinks, smiles (sometimes), pillows,  blankets, earphones and a screen right in front of you to watch and be distracted.  

Every summer we spend special time in Cape May with our dear friends Natalie and Richard and we are still in their thrall following our return home yesterday.  

Today is Uncle Joe’s funeral. He was a few months short of his hundredth birthday.Flo’s Uncle Joe was the superhero of the family. As Flo’s brother, Jeff, reminded his siblings, cousins, nieces and nephews, without Joe, there would be no family — or none as we know it.

Summer always goes so fast. Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day and its gone. If your kids play sports you don't have any weekends. You try to squeeze everything in, go away, spend family time, continue to work. Never enough time. Never enough days. I also enjoy it but its never long enough, technically it doesn't ends until Sept 23 this year but the season is over. Back to school, back to work, back to the grind. Its always nice to have the Gotham Golf outing cap off the season! It didn't disappoint this year!

Did you ever notice the energy in the room when a bunch of Gothamites come together?  

In discussing Gotham I aways say that “Gotham is special, we care.”  And Gotham proves it to me again and again. On this day when we think about those we lost on September 11, I thought this story would be worth telling.  

I know football started and I enjoyed a robust discussion at the Gotham Golf Outing's cocktail party with Paul Napolitano concerning tomorrow eve's game I apparently will not be able to view via "conventional" means.  But the tailgating Shelly and I enjoyed in the Met Life Parking lot on September 3 preceded no football contest; instead we gathered with good friends Eric & Jarmine and Lee & Shari to in advance of a "boss performance" that evening.

Because of the explosion of AI, educators have to rethink how they’ll teach courses this fall from Writing 101 to computer science. As an.educator myself, I want to embrace the technology’s potential to teach and learn in new ways. The issue is when you have to assess students, there's a need to “ChatGPT-proof” test questions and assignments.