To streak or not to streak?I play Wordle and, for a long time, they (whoever “they” are) kept track of my success (or lack thereof). It kept track of the number of games I had played without interruption. Kept track of my streak.It created a lot of pressure.Then, one day, the tracking stopped. I had never signed up or opened an account, yet I was t …
We just finished The Bear. It was slow starting, but Season 2 was spectacular. Such great acting and character development. Soon Bridgerton will be back I’m told but The Gilded Age is a long time away. We spent weeks and weeks getting through The Americans, sitting on the edge of our seats. And, we are still waiting for a release date of Shri …
Waking up on a sunny Saturday morning, brewing some delicious coffee and venturing out my back door to feel the sunshine and listen to the sounds of suburbia waking up. I found a video so you can share in my experience. (BTW, there were three of them in my neighbors yard)
This past week has been epic for my grandson Shawn Atom. One could describe it as a "Hat Trick" as he culminated his 7 year quest to become an Eagle Scout (achieved by only 4% of all Boy Scouts), decided to attend the venerable engineering program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and and is attempting to find a vocalist so his band can enter Got …
Now, this is a blast from the past. How many of you out there grew up with plastic slipcovers on the living room couch? If you are there with me, remember the whooshing noise they made when you sat down? How about, what it felt like to stand up from the hot cushions in the heat of the summer? Or, how the sharp edges on the corners felt just …
Did you feel it? I was in a meeting in Pelham NY when it happened. I thought it was so cool. People 300 miles from the epicenter felt the tremor which happened around 10:20AM yesterday The epicenter was about 4 miles southwest of Gladstone, NJ. According to the U.S. Geological Survey tectonic summary, the earthquake occurred because of “oblique …
Overheard while waiting for coffee at a local coffee and bake shop:Apparently a customer was calling because she has lost her cellphone and thought she might have left it in the shop’s bathroom.The person at the counter who answered the call had an empty cellphone case in her hand and was explaining that the empty case was all that was found in the …
As kids we learned about four seasons: Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring. We even had a TV character named Princess Summerfall Winterspring Seasons are how we mark time. Ecclesiastes made note of seasons - The Byrds memorialized seasons in song. The seasons offer some degree of certainty – predictable cycles. Over time we seem to have acquired …
Tomorrow is my birthday and over the last 10 years I have developed a tradition of memorializing it with a photo standing next to the applicable highway mile marker. We "Snow Bird" in Key West which is the southern most point in the continental United States and US Highway 1 begins there at mile marker Zero. Each year we venture up US 1 to the …
Anyone who knows me at all, knows how important family is in my world. It is not just about those in my immediate circle. I appreciate all family – mine and everyone else’s too. I also appreciate being a student of family. I am always taken with how our ancestors came to be together from generations before. I will tell a story – and one that …
