Events Chairman Norm Spizz and our Golf Committee (Brad Scherer, Corey Bearak, David Perry, Fred Morante, Jayne Latz, Laurel Scarr-Konel, Matt Plociak, Neal Berman, Reliable Ray Walcott, Shelley Simpson, Steve Reisner and Vincent Derogotis) are hard at work preparing for our October 7th Bob Formica Golf Out at Engineers Country Club where we got our start many moons ago.   Details will be on Fredslist soon and I hope to see you there.  

We recently visited Great Barrington, Massachusetts. The Berkshires is one of our favorite places and we visit several times a year. Because of Covid, we had not been there in several months.There have been changes on Railroad Street in Great Barrington, a commercial street off of Main Street. Bizen, the Japanese restaurant (owned and operated by our cousin), is the focal point of the one block street.

I had a different blog set for this morning, but something Fred said in our Philadelphia Gotham meeting last night prompted me to save the planned blog for another day, and write about the author. Fred is an amazing person. We all know this, and we surely have told him the same. Fred chooses the best in all of us and draws it to the surface. Like a gardner, he waters those talents and makes sure they get plenty of sunshine to grow strong.

  I have to admit I’m a little anxious. As I write this blog, I am readying to go back to my office tomorrow. It’s time. And truth is, I’m a little excited.

  I recently read an interesting article in New York Magazine. The subject of the article was the perennial maskers. The people interviewed for the story claimed that, even after mask mandates are lifted in New York and by the federal government, they would continue to wear their masks. Most of them agreed that they felt safe wearing masks and could see no reason to change that.  

Last year on this day, the #1 mom in my life — obviously the one I live with — got a surprise involving her son visiting our place with his then girlfriend now fiancé.  This year no surprise but a visit nonetheless.  After a campaign HQ opening — outdoors &  masked for my newest client, I returned to pick up Shelly and begin a drive to Amherst, MA, where Jonathan a

So today (Friday) at 3P I had an experience I haven't had in quite awhile...a business appointment that was not on Zoom. Masks on, elbow bumps for hello and a 10 minute conversation on shots, antibodies and viruses in general.  

If you have been vaccinated, I believe you are on the right track. What’s more, once vaccinated you receive a proof of vaccination card and it’s a keeper, as you may need it for various purposes. As such, you need to maintain it in decipherable condition and what better way than lamination. I pondered where can I get my vaccination card laminated and Staples popped to mind. So I called them to inquire and they said yes and what’s more “It’s free”! A (for sure) brilliant stroke of marketing!