I’m curious if you have a story or a tip.    To some degree, most of us have responsibility for bringing in new business.  It is one reason we come to a networking group – to expand our business referral sources (of course, in Gotham along with the strong sense of community inside our family).

When I was young, my mother insisted that my brother, sister and I eat dinner together every weekday at 5:00. Actually, she never called it “dinner,” she called it “supper.” Supper at 5:00 was our routine throughout my childhood.   My father, on the other hand, had supper when he came home from work. My mother would sit with him while he ate. My brother, sister and I had to stay out of the kitchen while he ate so he “could relax.”  

The title might suggest I could be talking about yesterday's nice weather.  Indeed, I did go out under the deck to clear out the remaining leaves from the fall; after I sat on my patio chair near my grill and listened to some videos on YouTube of performance of "The Brothers" from their two 55th Anniversary  performances last week at Madison Square Garden.  Marisa and I attended the Tuesday evening show; the playing was just amazing Tuesday; I played videos of Blue Sky from Tuesday and Wednesday evening followed by the instrumental Jessica.

Ah, the Long Island Expressway—our famed LIE,Where "express" is ironic, yet we use it to flee.From Queens to Riverhead, it's a daily test,Of patience and playlists—and holding in stress. Like the Southern State Parkway, with some curves so tight,It demands your focus both day and night.It’s narrow, it’s wild, it’s got no shoulder—And somehow everyone drives ten miles over. 

I am involved with two separate groups, each of which buy weekly lottery tickets (thank you Rosalia and Mitch) and, to date, neither group has won, but winning doesn't seem to be the true benefit.   The fellowship of being part of a group, with a positive common goal, is the true benefit, as we make believe (dream) we are going to win and talk and think as to what we would do with our sudden riches. It's a lot of fun :) What would you do if you won the lottery?

Oftentimes we’ll just put the TV on in the evening for background noise while we clean up the dishes and move on to other tasks. (We rarely block out the time to sit and watch one of the many “streamed” shows the are in the “must watch” list.)So, we have one of the formulaic network shows in the background.

Its been 5 years sine the world has become consumed with Zoom. Covid forced the world to go remote over night and everyone landed on the zoom screen. Zoom stock zoomed but has since crashed. Everyone is still using zoom on a daily basis, it has become apart of the everyday fabric along with a few other platforms that realized they needed to catch up. But 5 years later I have found zoom meetings to have become over crowded, the more prople that join the smaller everyones real estate is on the screen.

Some family traditions stick and just remind you of special times.  In my family, one of those traditions is full of frogs.