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Rona Gura
Nov23
Emoji is Now A Word in the Dictionary
Posted By : Rona Gura

  A friend asked me to look at a text conversation on her phone last week. She thought it was funny and wanted to share it with me.   In looking through the text conversation, I could not help but be amazed at the amount of emoji’s each of them were using to express themselves.   Does anyone use words anymore ?

Donald Bernstein
Nov22
A Baby
Posted By : Donald Bernstein

There sure is a lot of bad news these days. Lots of killings - Paris, Israel, Mali. It is a pretty scary world. And some of the ideas about how to deal with it can be pretty scary too. Especially from you know who.   It's important to remember the good things, even if they don't make headlines. After all, this is the time of year to be grateful.  

Mitch Tobol
Nov21
A moment
Posted By : Mitch Tobol

A lot can happen in a moment...joy, sadness, excitment, pain, happiness, worry, stress, peacefulness...   Since my "insult" 8 months ago the most common question I'm asked is "Has the experience changed you in any way?"   Other than living with the trauma, I believe I am more in the moment. Of course other stuff gets in the way but I'm more likely

Fred Klein
Nov20
Interesting Man?
Posted By : Fred Klein

< Have you ever seen the Dos Equis pitch man?  They call him "The Most Interesting Man in the World".  He is pictured above and you know what, I get it a lot that I look like him. There are a lot of worse possible comparisons.  When it comes up I usually respond "I'm just his stunt double". At the recent Gotham Film Festival one of the winners

Benjamin Geizhals
Nov19
The Scarf
Posted By : Benjamin Geizhals

Recent events in Paris bring me back to September 11, 2001 and its aftermath. For several years, beginning in the late 1990's, we visited Paris with friends for a long weekend in December to celebrate Flo and our friend’s birthdays. In those early years, I found Parisians to be less-than-welcoming to Americans. The cause -- whether it was the

Cayce Crown
Nov18
The Gift of Hatred
Posted By : Cayce Crown

Amid all the anger, the sadness, the hostility, the revenge minded and retaliatory rhetoric, this story from The Independent stands above and beyond. I can't do any better this week: The husband of a woman killed in the Paris attacks has written a touching message to the “love of my life” and promised to raise their 17-month-old son “happy and fre

Nancy Schess
Nov16
Answering Rona
Posted By : Nancy Schess

I sat down to try to write another blog but just could not. Friday night Bill was out with friends and my son and I had a “mother-son” dinner. [Bacon wrapped steak and a boulder blossom at Boulder Creek, his current favorite meal]. We were together as the events in Paris were being reported. We watched together and talked. He was intently in

Rona Gura
Nov16
Viva La France
Posted By : Rona Gura

  I had to follow up Mitch’s blog about the horror in Paris with one of my own. Mitch did an incredible job writing about the facts. For me, today, it’s all about the emotions. As I commented on Mitch’s blog on Sunday, two days after the attacks, “My heart hurts.”     The Sunday Times reported that many of the victims at the concert and the resta

Donald Bernstein
Nov15
Making Things Work
Posted By : Donald Bernstein

I have very low tolerance for broken things.  Mainly because I am not good at fixing them. Most of it is a matter of patience, and when it comes to things that don't work, I have very ittle. Like when I turn on the TV and all I see is fuzz. I look around at the five remote controls in the closet, slam the door closet door shut, and ask Eve to call

Mitch Tobol
Nov14
Paris
Posted By : Mitch Tobol

France has declared a national state of emergency and tightened borders after at least 128 people were killed in a night of gun and bomb attacks in Paris.   Eighty people were reported killed after gunmen burst into the Bataclan concert hall where an American band (Eagles of Death Metal) was playing and took hostages before security forces stormed

Fred Klein
Nov13
Dear Diary
Posted By : Fred Klein

I have kept a hand written daily diary religiously since 1/1/70.  It is a ritual which serves many many purposes. Some of the positive benefits are historical and others are mental.  I started reading it 11 years ago and each night I am reading 34 years ago today and a year ago today.  The benefit of such perspective is immeasurable.  The invariabl

Benjamin Geizhals
Nov12
At The Bar
Posted By : Benjamin Geizhals

The Downtown Marriott in Chicago has a nice bar in the lobby. A great big screen with six different TV screens dominates one side. Six different sporting events on one screen. The bar is a real gathering place. We were sitting at the bar. I am not sure whether we said something or the man sitting next to Flo started the conversation. It's easy

Cayce Crown
Nov11
Participation
Posted By : Cayce Crown

The greatest gift Gotham gives us is the gift of interaction, engagement and participation with our fellow Gothamites. It reveals who we truly are and what we truly want. A gift unique to Gotham, that you can create events based on your interests, just be prepared to take charge. This is not just the origin of the Film festival, but Battle of the B

Nancy Schess
Nov09
Truth
Posted By : Nancy Schess

  I am not sure I have ever written a movie review blog. But here goes. This past weekend, we saw “Truth”, the movie about what came to be known as Rathergate, the news story that took down Dan Rather. Regardless of whether you lean the same way as the movie, I recommend visiting a movie theatre soon to take this one in. First, really excellent

Rona Gura
Nov09
Changing Paths
Posted By : Rona Gura

  I have been thinking and talking a lot lately about reinventing oneself. Many of my clients seem to want to change careers or other aspects of themselves after going through a divorce. I am not a therapist but it seems like a natural progression to me.     A good friend-who has not gone through a divorce-has seemed to reinvent herself as a very