2020 is finally over! Good riddance to an annus horribilus! It's a New Year! Hallelujah! Happy New Year! P.S. Keep wearing your mask and we will move toward the light and emerge safely and happily from this horrible tunnel!
For years we have celebrated New Year’s Eve with our dear friends. Usually just the two couples. We’d find a place on the East End to have dinner and stay over for breakfast on New Year’s Day. This year will be different—for obvious reasons- but we are trying to hold on to some tradition. We found a place to have an early dinner with our friends. …
Last year at this time we headed into the New Year with 2020 vision. Who could have predicted what was in store for us?. As we head into 2021, we still live in CoronaTimes. Is that changing the way you are looking forward? Has it changed how you think or speak of the upcoming year? This is usually the time for making promises or plans and headi …
I saw a Facebook post tonight that reminded me of my childhood. It’s funny how certain foods take me right back to our kitchen on Batchelder Street, sitting around the table in a room surrounded by shiny wallpaper which was covered floor to ceiling with huge orange and yellow flowers. (I know my mother did not come up with that décor on her own. …
We buried my Mom on Mother’s Day, 2008. I was extremely close to my Mom and my Dad knew that. Therefore, on the day of her funeral, he handed me her diamond wedding band, for me to wear, “always.” On that day I slipped it on my right hand and vowed never to take it off. Over the years, my Mom’s ring became a symbol of her presence and comfort …
Annually, I offer a rather short blog with a concerted purpose: a musical start to welcome the new year. We reached that moment with the most popular of the playlists I post on YouTube and Apple Music: Song To Ring in the New Year. Please do enjoy and share it. As I explained in prior years, this curated list reflects more my musical taste in c …
I recently found out that the COVID-19 pandemic has prevented many suppliers of Christmas trees from Canada from selling across the border. So now we have spruce thieves - individuals that illegally cut off spruce tops. They work late at night, and use fluorescent tape to mark their trails into the spruce swamps, so they don't get lost on the way …
Are you aware that Gotham has a Hall of Fame? As pictured, it is on our website and peopled by the annual recipients of our Networker of Year and Red Bandanna Awards. This year, Hot Spot Queens Group members Brad Scherer, Dan Schwartz and Lourdes Villanueva Hartrick were our inductees. Take a look at our Hall of Fame on the website (click on About …
Happy holidays..... Our children are all married with young families. One lives in Manhattan, one lives on Brooklyn, another in Alexandria, Virginia and another in Washington D.C. Getting everyone together has always been a challenge and it has been years since we were all together in one place. Until the era of Zoom. Two weeks ago, we lit Hanuk …
The question, “how can we help you?” asked most often by Nancy Schess at Gotham meetings was directed a little differently as we closed a Gotham COVID Review a few weeks back. Those are Gotham's magic words. We are a resilient, creative, caring and hearty group of professionals, managers, owners, entrepreneurs - whatever label signifies “person …
We are big burger fans in my house. I remember years ago when my son was in middle school we even started a Long Island mother-son lunch tour to find the best hamburger on Long Island. Funny thing is that we kept coming back to the same place – our local diner. I know what I am about to say may be controversial in the era of the every othe …
I have become obsessed with watching “The Crown.” It is the story of the current Queen of England’s reign. I first tried to watch it from the beginning, episode one, season one. But I quickly became a bit confused as who was who and I stopped watching mid-episode. After a friend raved about “The Crown,” I tried a different approach. I watched th …
(Saturday’s blogger’s commentary yesterday in part inspired this musing about the aftermath of the recent snowfall.) Friday’s blogger texted me yesterday to call; I called his cell. His talented artist wife picked up and explained he was shoveling his driveway. When he called back, I admonished him for the exertion; I related the story of Grandp …
The joys of winter! It's beautiful...everything coated in white, brisk mornings where you can see your breath, the crunch of snow under your feet and sitting in front of a nice warm, cozy fire. And of course...battling with the snow thrower, slipping and banging your head, shoveling really heavy snow and dealing with drivers that should not be on …
Following up on Ben's blog of yesterday, we thoroughly enjoyed our annual Holiday Party Wednesday night and, as is tradition, the weather was daunting, ie, it snowed and snowed and snowed. So much so that it amounted to another silver lining in that the pandemic prevented a traditional in person festival and required that we party conveniently on Z …
