New Year’s Eves of Years Gone By

In remembering the New Year’s Eves of my past, I smile at the great moments I’ve shared with friends and family bringing in the new year. There was the night I stayed up until the sun came up with friends playing cards and listening to music; the two New Year’s Eves I spent in Japan, [...]

What I Have Read

I read 44 books this year. I know because I have written a book review on amazon.com of each book that I completed. There were a few books that I started and then failed to finish due to losing interest, but every book I finished I wrote a review for. I currently have 146 reviews [...]

Seven Cities

There was a time not long ago when I stood firm about where I would and would not live in my life. I had a list of no more than seven cities in the United States that I would consider to work, play and live. Anywhere outside of those seven cities I had no interest [...]

Christmas Time is Here Again

It’s Christmas time again. Like many people, I feel that each year seems to end quicker than the previous one. And here we are again, ready or not. Last year on this date I was waiting at JFK for my flight to California. It was, of course, delayed and I spent much of the evening [...]

Osteochondroma

On this day eleven years ago, December 19, 1996, I had surgery to remove a benign bone tumor from my upper right arm. My wife, being the doctor that she is, wanted to know exactly what this so-called tumor was, especially now that we have a child of our own, as I did not know [...]

The World in Dubai

There are some pretty ambitious people in Dubai right now trying to change the face of luxury and how we live in the future. Not only will Dubai soon be the site of the tallest building in the world when the Burj Dubai is completed, it will also be the home of The World. Similar [...]

Snow Falling

As I sit in my office on the 32nd floor and look out at the snow that has begun to fall over Manhattan I remember back to a train ride I had over seven years ago. It was February of 2000, Y2K had proven to be no big deal and I was in the mountains [...]

From W to the K

Since moving to New York I had always wondered why all of the radio and television stations out east began with the letter “W” whereas all of the radio and television stations out west began with the letter “K”. I thought it could be tradition or perhaps there was a technical reason, such as radio [...]

Pearl Harbor

The attack on Pearl Harbor occurred sixty-six years ago today in a beautiful, shallow and protected harbor on the south side of Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands. Not yet a state when the U.S. Navy was attacked at Pearl Harbor, the State of Hawaii and the Federal Government have since turned the site into a [...]

Hudson Place

On the West Side of Manhattan lie the old Hudson Rail yards. Owned by the MTA on what has become some of the best located property in the City, ideas as to how to redevelop the site have circulated over the last many years. At one point, the site was to be the new location [...]

The Definition of an Entrepreneur

I have never thought of myself as an entrepreneur, until that is, there was something worthwhile to pursue. A quick search came up with the definition of an entrepreneur as: One who assumes the financial risk of the initiation, operation and management of a given business or undertaking. That sure sounds a lot more exciting [...]