I have to admit it. I have road rage. I drive, at least, a half hour every day to and from my office. Often my commute is much longer if I have to drive to court. If I am driving and another driver does something that I find annoying I start. All it takes is me to be cut off or the driver in front of me to be driving too slowly. I will start ye …
I have an etiquette question. As many of you know my husband and I are frequent flyers. I am also a nervous flyer, so I have to sit next to my husband. Mostly to grab his arm when the turbulence hits. My husband likes the aisle seat. So, I am often in the middle seat of a three-seat aisle. I have recently noticed that the person who takes the …
I need podcast suggestions. Since the pandemic, I have undertaken the additional responsibility of doing my own billing. My husband works on Saturday mornings so I use that time alone to input and prepare my billing. To say that I find that preparing the billing is tedious work is an understatement. Recently, however, I have discovered podcast …
Recently, I posted a blog abut my apprehension on being on a boat for a week with no access to Wi Fi or cell service. I thought I would follow up with my experience. I must, initially, confess that we had more access to cell service than I had anticipated. The first day on the water, I found myself periodically checking my phone, perhaps once an …
My husband and myself and another couple have been planning a vacation for over a year. We will be on a catamaran travelling around Antiqua for a week. Nowhere near the luxury of the “Below Deck,” boats (Bravo fans will get the reference) but a very different and relaxing vacation nevertheless. Our planning has been extensive, asking what we need …
My youngest daughter, Sydney, got married on October 28, 2023. Since that day I have been contemplating what I would say about her wedding in a blog. There was an unexpected, for me, difficult part of the day. It was difficult to come to the realization that my baby (she’s the youngest of four) is no longer a baby. She was becoming a married woma …
How much credibility do you give to online reviews? If I am going to a restaurant or hotel for the first time I will, generally, look through the online reviews. But my personal experience has been that people are much quicker to write about negative experiences rather than positive ones. I am uncertain what it is about the internet that can bri …
I have lived on Long Island since I was six years old. As such, I pride myself on knowing how to get to most anyplace on Long Island. I still, however, use Google Maps as a backup if I am going somewhere I have never been or have not been in a long time. This recently occurred on Friday when I had to venture from my Garden City office which is l …
Do you post political posts on social media? I posted something a few years ago about a political issue that is important to me. Unfortunately, I thought at the time that my Facebook was private. Apparently, it was not, and I lost a few clients who had seen my post. So, I decided not to post politically anymore. In the past month, I felt the stro …
Mitch’s recent blog about the best advice he had ever received-which came from his father-inspired me to think about the best advice I have ever received. For me, it came from my former father-in-law. Going through a divorce, with two very young children, was an extremely difficult time in my life. My former father-in-law, however, always tried t …
I intended to take Friday off. My daughter was getting married on Saturday (which is a blog for another day) and so I decided to take the day to attend to last minute details, get my nails done, travel to the venue, etc. But, with my emails being pushed to my iPhone and my clients having my cell phone number, I still worked. There were several e …
Supermarkets are often hurried places with the routine of shoppers, carts moving, and register lines that seem to never move quickly enough. It is usually a place where people come to quickly purchase their essentials and leave. But sometimes, in the most unexpected places, we stumble upon moments of pure joy. It happened to me on a routine groc …
To me, there are two types of people in the world, those who like to clean and those who do not. I fall into the latter category; I am not a cleaner. My mother was a world class cleaner. My siblings, my father, and I used to joke that she would follow each of us around the house holding a sponge so she could clean as we were physically making the m …
How do you utilize your personal strengths in your professional life? I recently had to ponder this question as I was asked, by a judge, whether I preferred to orally argue a point of law or write a memorandum of law on the issue. Surprising my adversary, I choose to write the memorandum. A little dumfounded by my choice, my adversary agreed. A …
I have been thinking about my friendships a lot lately. It’s probably because Nancy recently raised the topic of friendship at a Gotham Long Island meeting. Admittedly, I have a lot of friends. But my thoughts have been centering on what makes certain friendships special to me. I have friends that I have been close to for a long time, since hig …
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