On Monday granddaughter Ruby visited and after a delicious bar pie lunch at Eddie’s Joanne led us through an artistic exercise denominated as Exquisite Corpse. In essence, it is a collaborative Art exercise where each participant starts on their own folded piece of long sectioned paper intended to depict the torso of a figure without knowing of or …
We have a good friend, Guy deBoer, who is a genuine throwback to the bygone Explorers. We admire our Guy for his quest to be the first American to win the Golden Globe, around the World, solo sailor, sail boat, Race. He is one of 15 contestants who will start the race in France on September 4th and we will be there to see him off. We are part of …
Last week I blogged about superstition and negative Jinxes. This week is the flip side: superstition and good luck charms. You all have them and I’m interested in your reveal!This past week my highly effective good luck charm was/were my “Lucky Shorts”, which I wore constantly (except for bedtime) since I went to the Yankee game with Paul Napolit …
I really can’t explain its genesis, but twice a day I post a somewhat difficult to identify photo of a famous person on Facebook and my followers vie to be the first to guess who it is and earn a Bingo photo. Truth be told, the competition is fierce and it’s as if I’m riding a whirlwind. For whatever the reason, many are quick to hazard a guess …
We have a friend who is soon to be World famous. His name is Guy deBoer (pictured) and he is endeavoring to fulfill his dream to be the first American to win the prestigious around the World Golden Globe, 30,000 mile, solo sail boat race. He will embark, single handed, next September from France on this nonstop race. The race has been described …
We have a terrific member named Ray Walcott who fills many Gotham roles reliably, ergo, his nickname “Reliable Ray”. Last Saturday night both Ray and I were at the Gotham Yankee/Met game at Citi Field and were both, responsibly, wearing masks. Thus, when I first encountered Ray I was not sure who he was. Later I figured it out and approached him …
One of Gotham’s many theme base list serves is Sportstalk (inspired by Ben Geizhals before a long ago Giants Super Bowl). The concept is for sports fans to discuss sports without clogging up Fredslist. You need not be a Gotham member and just need to ask us to put you on the list and then email to sportstalk@gothamnetworking.com to join the conve …
I just said something exuberant to my wife Joanne and her response was “Sure, dream on, Fred”. My response to her was “That’s a subject for a blog.”And here we go: “Dream on” is the perfect subject for a blog, less than one week after the fourth annual Gotham Picnic softball game which was covered last Sunday by Sunday blogger and my first basema …
Are you superstitious? I know I am!Superstition is defined as a belief or notion, not based on reason or knowledge, in or of the ominous significance of a peculiar thing, occurrence, proceeding or the like – irrational fear of what is unknown or mysterious. Another definition is a widely held unjustified belief in supernatural causation leading to …
I live on Long Island and commute to work in Manhattan by car. I drive to the East River on the Long Island City side where I park and take the subway 2 stops into the city. The distance is 19 miles and when I was young and training for the marathon, Ben Geizhals and I (see photo) would run the 19 miles into the city once a week. It was quite a t …
Do you know what I mean? Did it ever happen to you? Did something suddenly come out of nowhere unexpectedly and happen so fast? It happened to me last week. I was driving along the Grand Central Parkway, in lane and observing the speed limit, when two cars came upon me weaving through the traffic as if in a careless contest or race. You’ve seen …
I live on Long Island and drive to work in Manhattan. Actually, I drive 19 miles from my home to the Queens side of the East River and take the subway two stops to my office in Manhattan.I take various driving routes without using Waze and bide my time by making Bluetooth telephone calls and listening to books on CDs. Once school is out traffic lig …
Last week I finally got to play with my son David and my grandson Jackson, all together in a row, on the Gotham Batmen softball team (see photo). It's been a long long time coming and I can truly say that it was one of the greatest moments of my life!Can you imagine that Jackson hit a long homerun which I caught on video tape, David got the game en …
The name Aaron is a most significant one in history.Aaron was the older brother of Moses and his partner in all of his accomplishments. In Hebrew the meaning of Aaron is lofty; exalted; high mountain. The second name (first until recently) in all of baseball history in the baseball encyclopedia is Hank Aaron, one of the very greatest players ever t …
When I was young my first job out of law school was as an investigator for the National Labor Relations Board and one of my first cases involved the Long Island Press against which an Unfair Labor Practice Charge had been filed. My job was to interview the Long Island Press Editor David Starr, present him with the allegations, record his responses …
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