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Donald Bernstein
Apr20
STORY WEEK. Part One
Posted By : Donald Bernstein

  It was a rainy Sunday morning  in October and the sky was grey and dark and thick with clouds.   The thunder startled Dan who was always on edge and made him spill his coffee on his couch and all over the framed picture of his younger brother Todd who he had not seen ever since he was lost at sea exactly a year ago.   He wiped the coffee off the

Donald Bernstein
Apr13
Restaurant question
Posted By : Donald Bernstein

Torn between two menu items, the friendly server comes over and wants to know if we have any questions.  Yes, I say, what is better, the swordfish or the black cod?  Or the branzino and the vegetarian mousaka?   Sometimes the waiter seems stumped, as if he or she had never ever given that any thought before.  Then they offer their opinion, and I wo

Donald Bernstein
Apr06
Lucky Man
Posted By : Donald Bernstein

After spending most of yesterday in my office arranging files for storage, I aimed back towards the garage where I had parked, taking in the mild spring-like weather.  I decided to avoid the crowds and tourists on 42nd Street, and instead walked casually down 43rd St where there were few people, towards Ninth Avenue.  I had a productive day, was lo

Donald Bernstein
Mar30
My Special Eagle Head
Posted By : Donald Bernstein

Sitting on my office desk facing me is a Tiffany Lalique glass crystal sculpted eagle head.    My parents gave it to me forty-seven years ago for my bar mitzvah.  And for all of those forty-seven years, through high school, college, and law school, in St. Louis and Chicago, and back through a number of homes in New York, I have always had it with

Donald Bernstein
Mar23
The Orange Curse
Posted By : Donald Bernstein

We had spent a full day in the City.  Our last stop was at Chelsea Market to buy some fish to take home for dinner.  We got back just in time for the start of the Syracuse game and had our remote handy to switch back and forth to the Wisconson game, the schools that two of our children went to.  Little did we know as we sat eating our dinner in fro

Donald Bernstein
Mar16
My Overdue Book
Posted By : Donald Bernstein

  Searching on line not long ago, I found a book on "Modern European History Since 1600" written by Carl Becker. I have been looking for a book by Carl Becker for quite a while, so I bought it on eBay.   The book arrived, worn and tattered and with old, yellowing scotch tape holding the table of contents and most of the first fifteen pages in place

Donald Bernstein
Mar09
Skeet Shooting
Posted By : Donald Bernstein

On vacation, having already gone bike riding, swimming, golfed and played tennis, we decided to try something completely new and different.  Skeet shooting.  There is a range a mile away where you shoot pigeons.   My lifetime experience shooting a gun is filling the clown's mouth with a water gun and blowing up the balloon at a carnival.  So I wasn

Donald Bernstein
Mar02
The Magical Bitcoins
Posted By : Donald Bernstein

The big financial news of the week was the collapse of the Bitcoin trading giant, Mt. Gox.   This should not come as a real surprise, if you know anything about Bitcoins.   I also don't know why anyone would even trade with a company that sounds like Dr. Suess invented it.  The company lost millions of make believe coins that really don't exist oth

Donald Bernstein
Feb23
Manster
Posted By : Donald Bernstein

Eve is spotting an irritation on her shoulder, close to her neck.  She asked me to look at it.   I am not a doctor, and there is not much I can say, but I am checking carefully to make sure it does not morph into a Manster.   Do you remember that 1959 horror movie?  It is about an American journalist who travels to Japan to inteview Dr. Suzuki who

Donald Bernstein
Feb16
Balentine's Day and Other Mistakes
Posted By : Donald Bernstein

Every Valentine's Day, in my head I think of it as Balentine's Day.  For some reason when I was a little kid that is what I thought it was called.   I also thought that a vagina was a bagina, and I bet my friend Johnny Seagal that I was right.   I lost the bet, but even worse I was embarrassed when he yelled out to his mother "Donny thinks a vagi

Donald Bernstein
Feb09
The Luge
Posted By : Donald Bernstein

What gives me the willies most among the Olympic events has got to be the luge.  They fly down a sheet of ice approaching 90 mph on  a tiny sled, on their backs, reaching 5 g's of force.   And they do it over and over.   What is the skill, I wonder.   Apparently in part it is keeping your head up, and your gut down, so you can see.  Their neck musc

Donald Bernstein
Feb02
The Deal
Posted By : Donald Bernstein

We are skiing out west this week, a sport exhausting and exhilarating.  The key is to limit the exhausting part.  For this Eve and I have a deal.   I carry her skis for her when we start and finish the day and after lunch and hot chocolate breaks.  And she picks out my clothes each morning and night and has them all ready for me on the bed.    Thi

Donald Bernstein
Jan26
What is in a name
Posted By : Donald Bernstein

Sitting with a client in the office the other day, we were going down names on a list. His name is Sebastian and he is from somewhere in South America, I forgot exactly. I have known him for about five years or so. He told me that his name was on the list. No it isn't I told him. Yes, he said, it is right here as he pointed to the name John

Donald Bernstein
Jan19
A morning with physics
Posted By : Donald Bernstein

What if you could predict all future events? A 19th century French mathematician, Laplace, thought you could. If you can predict the position of billiard balls bouncing on a table applying rules of physics, so you can also predict the position of atoms in the universe. Of course you have to know the exact position of every atom in the universe.

Donald Bernstein
Jan12
A gift
Posted By : Donald Bernstein

Having nothing of any importance planned last night I offered babysitting services to my daughter and son in law in Brooklyn. They were happy to have an adult night to themselves. I was even happier to have a night with the little one year old. I had a lot of time with her this week. Last weekend was her one year birthday party. Tuesday n

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