On Sunday morning I was awakened ultra early by a call from a friend alerting me that the water had been turned off in my neighborhood and advising I buy bottled water. It got me thinking about water, our most taken for granted natural resource. Pictured are some of the ways water benefits our body. Let's just say we can't live without it. And …
Recently, I have started describing myself as a "significant nobody". It's not for nothing that I come by this moniker. Yes, I was Treasurer of the Friars Club for 10 years, senior partner of a labor and employment firm for many many years and cofounder of Gotham City Networking, but that all came to a resounding end last Fall. At that time our …
My 16 year old grandson Shawn visited us last week and he let it be known that he was learning to play the guitar. Amazingly, he was soon peppered with all sorts of offers of stringed instruments: ukuleles on up through acoustics to electric with amp. Even a steel guitar. Of course he jammed. We did not plan it and just marveled at the burgeoni …
My granddaughter sends me a weekly question and my responses are accumulated until year end. Then they are bound in a volume for the purpose of memorializing Family History. If the concept interests you please visit www.Storyworth.com. The question this past Monday was: What is one of the strangest things that ever happened to you? I resp …
What are your true feelings about Valentine's Day? I ask while Tuesday is still fresh in your mind. Is it just some manufactured Hallmark Holiday or is it romantic nirvana? Over the arc of our marriage we have always exchanged Valentine's cards, except this year. We mutually agreed it had become a played out ritual. Yet, as it happened, we had …
There’s an oft used expression “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.” For many years the expression held water. However, over the not inconsiderable span of my life I have noticed that Humans can be conditioned to learn new and better habits and conduct, ergo, new tricks. 2 examples that jump out to me are not smoking indoors and picking up pet …
I’ve had a cold for too long. Complication is that my doctor is a thousand miles away. After exchanging a number of texts he suggested we have a “Telehealth visit”, so he could see me “face to face and make a plan of action.” And Telehealth visit we did and after a variety of questions and answers he even asked me to cough. It was an amazing virt …
Last week my Friday With Fred blog was about the Anubis Horribus year of 1968, eg, 2 assassinations and my friend David Berger suggested I lighten it up by blogging about the wonderful subsequent year. 1969 has been called The Year That Shook the World. Pictured are many of the wonderful highlights of a wonderful bounce-back year! For me, a Spo …
Inasmuch as Monday was Martin Luther King day, I harked back to 1968, the year of Dr. King’s assassination. I was a young impressionable man then and I recall it being Anubis horribus! A significant number of horrible events come to mind, as pictured. Is there a lesson to be learned from enduring 1968? Yes and No. Subsequent history teaches us …
What was the very best Holiday present you received last year? No question, mine was from granddaughter Maggie Klein. It was Storyworth. To learn more visit www.storyworth.com. The concept is that every Monday I receive a question, eg, What was your first job? I answer the question and add an appropriate picture and it goes on and on weekly …
On New Year’s Day I decided I would make New Year’s resolutions. Having reached that conclusion I then pondered what they would be?I conjured that I would Live Right and drink more water. Boring?Not if I fulfill it!
Two of my favorite words and concepts are Tradition and Family. Tradition is the transmission of customs or beliefs from generation to generation. Family is synonymous with lineage, clan or Tribe. Combined together, Family Tradition constitutes very strong ties that bind. Very closely!Our 3 generation family has just observed our annual holiday …
I always believed in Santa Claus. Still do!Tonight we continue our Family tradition of decorating our hearth with Santas small and large and they inspire me to think, as I mature and whiten. Aren’t there really 4 stages of life:1) You believe in Santa2) You don’t believe in Santa3) You are Santa and4) You look like Santa!
My wife couldn’t get the Amazon app to open on her computer, but I could on my phone. So I agreed to help, in my way, with her holiday shopping. And so began the following innocent, incompetent and frustrating adventure exploring the Amazon.In my own way, I then ordered the wrong thing or the wrong size or the wrong color. Or I ordered the righ …
I lead off with a gush of good feelings and appreciation, engendered by our Tuesday night annual (Zoom) Holiday Party. It was that good, that abundant, that sharing, that Tribal!We gave out our prestigious Awards and 7 Foundation Grants and the recipients‘ palpable surprise and appreciation was wonderful. We shared praise and Gotham history. We c …
Fridays With Fred
A perfect way to send you into your weekend