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Crysti Farra
Jun18
Family is more than blood
Posted By : Crysti Farra

As we all come out of Father's Day weekend, I wanted to share a thought about "family".  I have come to realize, (with much reminding by my wonderful partner Stewart) that family is not just blood relations. For instance, this past weekend we traveled to Texas.  The main impetus of the trip originally was to surprise my best friend of some 45 years

Nancy Schess
Jun17
Family Tradition
Posted By : Nancy Schess

We had such a nice Father’s Day weekend.  It started with a “surprise” visit from our son and his fiancé, continued with lots of family time and a super great gift from our daughter (hint – there is a Dad Joke theme in my house).  And of course, lots of good food.  It ended with an annual family gathering we have been enjoying for more years than I

Rona Gura
Jun16
Letting Go Of Cable
Posted By : Rona Gura

Our cable tv went out last Tuesday morning. We did not even notice it until 11:00 p.m. when we went to turn on the local network news.   Our cable company’s response time was, surprisingly quick. They determined that it was probably the box and sent a new one via overnight mail.  The cable, however, was still not working after we installed the new

Corey Bearak
Jun15
Join the Club
Posted By : Corey Bearak

About a month ago in between a lovely Bar Mitzvah service for a friend's grandson in Dobbs Ferry and the evening reception in Hastings on the Hudson, Shelly and I visited with our son Jonathan and his lovely wife, Carrie at their apartment in the Greystone section of Yonkers, above five minutes from the reception.  Somehow the discussion turned to

Mitch Tobol
Jun14
The ongoing shift in labor
Posted By : Mitch Tobol

It’s kind of wild to think about—early humans worked because they had to. If you didn’t grow it, build it, or catch it, you didn’t survive. Your labor was life.   Today, most of us are far removed from the work that sustains us. Our food, clothes, and everyday essentials are made by hands we’ll never see, on farms, in factories, in different countr

Fred Klein
Jun13
Friday the 13th
Posted By : Fred Klein

In our family 13 is a lucky number, as it is the date upon which my wife Joanne was born.  Throughout our relationship, everyone has always reinforced this reality by telling me how "lucky" I have been to be with her and, more than anyone else, I readily agree!In addition, for many years my law firm thrived on the 13th floor, I came of age at 13 an

Benjamin Geizhals
Jun12
If ....
Posted By : Benjamin Geizhals

Rudyard Kipling, is his famous poem “If” got it right.“If” is the most consequential word in our language, and in our lives.

Brian Timpe
Jun11
Tranquility Outside the City
Posted By : Brian Timpe

Follow up to a prior blog about Spring get-away inquiries, my wife and I landed on a long weekend out in Sag Harbor. This turned out to be our "baby moon"...did not know this was a thing until she found "bloggers" talking about on social media [blogging works!].  In any event, we've stopped through Sag Harbor several times in the past for lunch but