I recently received an email from an art gallery which, for some reason, keeps me on its email list. The email announced the birth of a second child to one of the gallery. The email was replete with pictures of the happy family and newborn baby. I was reminded of a friend who told me that he got his wife to go to baseball games by talking about the players as real people -- families, etc. As his wife became interested in the players as real people, she started going to games.

Just read today that Barack Obama gave Shell Oil the OK to drill for oil in the Arctic. The idea is, not much going on down there and vast reserves of oil and natural gas. How can this be a good thing? How can our government be so out of touch with the natural world? How can they not know the planet is connected?

  So, what do you think? Did Tom Brady deserve to be suspended? If so, how do you feel about 4 games? Did the Patriots deserve the $1 million fine?

I had one of “those” nights the other night. We’ve all had them. As time ticks away my eyes wouldn’t close. I saw 2:00 a.m. pass by and then 3:00 pass by. And, as time continued to tick by, my anxiety about being well rested for my early morning court appearance grew steadily.

The first lines of Dante's classic Inferno, part one of the three part Divine Comedy, are:   "Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark,

Start a micronation. You can print your own stamps and even money. There are about 98 active micronations across the planet from Australia to Antartica. They are not officially recongnized by the government but that doesn't stop them from trying.   They even had a conference this year...Micro Con 2015. Here are some of the micronations that attended:

Following up on last week's blog, I was honored last Friday by the Russo family Theresa Foundation.  One of the honoree responsibilities is to help raise donations to the Foundation. I am very pleased to report that with the help of our Gotham Networking Tribe we broke the previous record by 25%. This was very satisfying and I thank everyone involved, contributors included, for this team effort.

I don't consider myself to be a fashion statement; although the other day an adversary told me that my tie reminded her of a Klimt painting as we digressed to a brief discussion of the movie Woman in Gold.