I was touched by a post in the In Memoriam section of the New York Times this week.  I cannot comment on it.  It speaks powerfully for itself and the grieving father who wrote it.  Here it is:   "Transcending, ever flowing, my love is with its essence...you.  

From the world of OMG...Designer Alexander Amosu has deisgned two of the most expensive iPhone 6 you can buy. The cost...5.6 million. Talk about a luxury brand.   The first one is an iPhone 6 that comes with a cover made of 24-karat rose and yellow gold while the second design is just like the gold plated version, but comes with a crazy four side bezel and a diamond studded back.   I'll bet someone out there is just waiting to buy them. Are you?

My son David has had a female Schnoodle dog named Lucy for about 4 years. A Schnoodle is hyper allergenic, i.e., has hair not fur and therefore doesn't cause one to sneeze, etc.  2 Summers ago David prevailed upon us to get one too and we did so. As many know, Charcoal is her name and as I have previously blogged, she converted me into a dog lover. During the Christmas-New Year holidays David and his wife Julie asked us to take care of Lucy.

I saw the headline in the Metro section of yesterday’s Wall Street Journal -- “The Politics of Apology: A Standoff”. On Tuesday, Victoria Drogin commented at the Long Island Women’s Group meeting that women tend to apologize, whereas men generally don’t. And I recall being instructed by a Senior partner at my first law firm never to apologize.

I remember growing up as a kid hearing everyone speak about the television set as if it was extended from the depths of hell from Satan himself.  It was destroying people's minds, it would be the end of family time, it was rotting out our BRAINS!    

  My family has an Ellis Island story and it goes like this. Our family name was Jablonsky. When my great grandfather came through Ellis Island, he wanted a nice American sounding name that had no ethnicity attached. The one that came to his mind was Levine – my maiden name.

I have written a few times about my office toys, which include a yo-yo, a baseball, a rubber ball, and a few other assorted diversions.   My partner has a little putting green but he must not like it because he keeps it in a box.