Traveling to California to see my daughter and son in law, we took Delta from NY to San Francisco. When I booked the flight my choice of seats were limited. However when we pulled back from airport to take off, to my surprise, the plane was half empty (or was it half full :) I guess the public is not flying to CA anymore? Did people change their …
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 …
This was written on Sunday - a few hours before the Super Bowl…. The Super Bowl starts in a few hours and I’ll be watching. I played in the office pool and have two boxes. I haven’t checked the numbers on the boxes and I’m debating whether to check before the game.On the one hand, I want to watch the football game. On the other hand, it is fun to …
I had a doctor’s visit today. All fine, just a regularly scheduled checkup. I have been using this particular physician for close to twenty years. Each visit feels like we are catching up with each other. Before ever talking about anything medical a whole conversation transpires. What’s new? How has your year been? How are the kids? Did …
It’s the day after Super Bowl. We had over twenty people at our house last night. My husband habitually had a Super Bowl party since before we met. Since we got married, almost twenty years ago, we continued that tradition. As expected, and as most of us are, the day after Super Bowl, I am exhausted. The Super Bowl generally runs late my husband …
On a day where many friends gather to catch a game or use a game an “excuse” to gather, I want to thank friends working together to make nice things happen. I certainly have used this space to advocate for causes I support and work with and for. Many friends in and out of Gotham join me to support Services Now for Adult Persons (SNAP) where I …
I love my drive home from work. It's anywhere from 27 minutes to roughly 45. It totally depends on how fast I feel like driving. Last night was about 40 minutes, I was in a reflective mood. I listen to books (right now it's Sapiens, a fascinating perspective on our species), satellite and terrestrial radio, and sometimes I don't and drive in sil …
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 …
Over last weekend, we went to Shoppe Object, a semi-annual venue where Flo finds some of her “finds”for Refined Finds. Although the show resurfaced in person last year, this was the first show with pre-Covid attendance (and very few masks).As buyers place orders for their retail stores, I take my informal, unscientific and subjective survey of the …
There are many of you out there that are loyal iPhone users. I for one am not, but my wife is, and I get it. I am not trying to sway anyone to a different platform, and I get all that there is when using Apple products together as a whole (one blogger makes that very clear in their posts). What gets my attention lately is the increased use of the “ …
This was the conversation in our house recently. Did your academic schooling prepare you to practice your chosen profession or craft? So far, the answer is maybe a little. My answer was that law school did not teach me how to practice law but it did teach me how to think and to write, in the end core qualities to practice the profession. …
In preparation for an upcoming trip to Italy I came across an interesting article, the subject matter was Europeans’ complaints and observations about American food. While the article was not relevant to the information I was looking for, I couldn’t help but read the piece. One item on the list truly surprised me. Apparently, the majority of the …
Next week at this time many will be preparing to watch and/or attend gatherings around Superbowl LVII. Many enjoy “buying” boxes around the final score or variations on it. My Knights of Pythias lodge runs a nice variant of superbowl boxes as a fun fundraiser that helps raise funds for our lodge’s foundation. Each year, FDR Lodge 613’s Kings FDR T …
Here's one to be filed under the "don't let your kids play with your phone" list. Last Saturday night a Dad let his 6 year old son, use his cellphone to play a game before bed. But instead of playing a game, he used his father’s Grubhub account to order food from one restaurant after another totaling $1,000 worth of food. A virtual smorgasbord of …
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 …
