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Corey Bearak
Aug31
Signed, Sealed & Delivered
Posted By : Corey Bearak

Starting the week I expected today’s commentary to review a concert attended this past Thursday with my daughter; that plan changed (last) Tuesday morning (August 26) after I read a story posted to Jewish Insider that New York Governor Kathy Hochul was about to sign into law a bill that my daughter – assistant director for the American Jewish Commi

Mitch Tobol
Aug30
Is Anything Real?
Posted By : Mitch Tobol

  I uploaded an old photo of me when I was much younger, with a giant afro, into a new AI application from Google, Nana Banana. Seconds later, I was a professional basketball player. A life I never lived, yet looked oddly believable (see photo).   The funny thing about AI is it can bend the truth, but it can’t fake how we feel. My chuckle, wonderme

Fred Klein
Aug29
Damn Yankees
Posted By : Fred Klein

One of the best things that my dad passed down to me is a fanatical rooting interest in Baseball, and more specifically, the New York Yankees.  I became a fan at the dawn of my Golden Age of the Yankees, in the 1950s.  During the span of Manager Casey Stengel's stewardship, they won 10 American League Pennants and 7 World Series.In 1954, an off yea

Benjamin Geizhals
Aug28
A Lesson from Long Ago
Posted By : Benjamin Geizhals

Many, many years ago, as we were packing the car for the return home from Martha’s Vineyard, a fellow guest bid us good wishes. When we complained that we heading for the “Sad” Ferry, he shared his words of wisdom:“If you don’t leave, you can never come back.”We have shared those words with so many others. Wise words meant to console and, at the sa

Crysti Farra
Aug27
Busy but happy
Posted By : Crysti Farra

Hmmmm, I am sensing a trend here on my blogs... Are you happy in your career? If not, maybe you should consider a change. My current path happened late in life, in my late 40's to be precise. Once I chose a new career, I haven't stopped, or looked back.    While I don't begrudge the long hours I put in, my family also pays a price, so think careful

Nancy Schess
Aug26
A Bit of a Shock
Posted By : Nancy Schess

I have been putting off upgrading my license to the Enhanced version.  I just could not bring myself to spend an entire  day at DMV to get it done.     I decided recently that it was time to “get over it” and just get it done.  Of course, I started to do my research.  I was determined to be so prepared when I walked in the door, that I was going to

Rona Gura
Aug25
Why Do We tell Stories?
Posted By : Rona Gura

I love to read.  Because I read so much in my professional life, I limit my recreational reading to novels and science fiction. When I am reading recreationally, I generally choose books that would be considered “light reading.”   I recently finished the novel, “How to Read a Book.” While it was easy prose to read, the book raised a lot of question

Corey Bearak
Aug24
53 (Fifty-three)
Posted By : Corey Bearak

Not a football reference nor to the number of homers Pete Alonso slugged in his rookie year with the Mets but to the number of years elapsed between the first time I saw Neil Young in concert and the show I took daughter Marisa to last night at Jones Beach.  Yesterday, I passed 30 days following my hip replacement surgery so I found it particularly

Mitch Tobol
Aug23
What a long strange trip
Posted By : Mitch Tobol

A library book just made the longest trip back to the San Antonio Public Library, 82 years overdue.   The book, Your Child, His Family, and Friends by Frances Bruce Strain, was checked out in July 1943 and only returned this past June by a man in Oregon. Inside was a note: “I hope there is no late fee for it because Grandma won’t be able to pay fo