Summer always goes so fast. Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day and its gone. If your kids play sports you don't have any weekends. You try to squeeze everything in, go away, spend family time, continue to work. Never enough time. Never enough days. I also enjoy it but its never long enough, technically it doesn't ends until Sept 23 this year but the season is over. Back to school, back to work, back to the grind. Its always nice to have the Gotham Golf outing cap off the season! It didn't disappoint this year!

Did you ever notice the energy in the room when a bunch of Gothamites come together?  

In discussing Gotham I aways say that “Gotham is special, we care.”  And Gotham proves it to me again and again. On this day when we think about those we lost on September 11, I thought this story would be worth telling.  

I know football started and I enjoyed a robust discussion at the Gotham Golf Outing's cocktail party with Paul Napolitano concerning tomorrow eve's game I apparently will not be able to view via "conventional" means.  But the tailgating Shelly and I enjoyed in the Met Life Parking lot on September 3 preceded no football contest; instead we gathered with good friends Eric & Jarmine and Lee & Shari to in advance of a "boss performance" that evening.

Because of the explosion of AI, educators have to rethink how they’ll teach courses this fall from Writing 101 to computer science. As an.educator myself, I want to embrace the technology’s potential to teach and learn in new ways. The issue is when you have to assess students, there's a need to “ChatGPT-proof” test questions and assignments.  

I regularly post on X (formally know as Twitter) and I've never had more than 50 views.  Then I posted a pic of Meghan Markle and said "Bingeing on Suits (and Meghan Markle)!!! and suddenly I'm a virtual influencer with 14K views to date.

With Labor Day behind us and summer over (although, technically, we have a few weeks left), we struggle with the annual question of the moment:Did the summer go by quickly or slowly?

What happened to our world?  Our lives?  Our society?  It seems that nothing, absolutely nothing is "as it used to be".  We live such fast paced existences, rarely slowing down to "smell the roses".  I personally struggle to find the work life balance for myself that I pound into the heads of my staff.  I want them to resist burnout, realizing that by providing that relief to them, I am piling more on myself to pick up where they must leave off of they are to have some needed down time.