Category: greatdays
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Hero Summer
School’s out and the fun has begun. I like to make sure we are deliberate about our summer fun, so I like to make a big target list for joy. This year I’ve organized it around Ninja Skills. I’m not sure this is ever coming off the wall.
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The Meaning of Scouts
I think I’ve been watching too much The Newsroom. We recently had a promotion ceremony and The Fellas advanced to their next Scouting rank. As part of the event, they asked Dads who had been Scouts to talk a little about their scouting experience in their youth. Their hustling me to get involved on the […]
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Howard and Al
I just walked by the Paley Center for Media at 52nd and 5th and got a little nostalgic. Journey with me back to 1991, and the Paley Center is called The Museum of Television and Radio. I’ve somehow fallen into a friend group with three ladies of the MOTR — Diane Rosenberg (who I know […]
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Wow, that’s a pretty good job…
Dr. Tewell at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian was charismatic and demanding. He didn’t suffer the Sunday-only Presbyterian who ignored their duties of officium et pecuniae (service and donation), and so FAPC had a very active volunteer team. It wasn’t unusual for Dr. T to finish service with “we’re not leaving here until I have two more […]
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risk vs. uncertainty
I’ve had the thrill of a combination of successful and less-than-successful startup experiences. The first ended in a 9/11 accelerated total collapse in 2001. The 30 seconds on it are “we had a little piece of software that got downloaded about 25,000 times, and if you were on, let’s say Amazon, looking at the latest […]
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Give Props to The ROTH
I’ve had the great joy of a closed-knit association with a couple of spectacular groups. The Fellas of Fiji, the Booz Allen Media Crew, myNYC poker/skiing fellas and my Founder’s Nest compatriots. Among the best is a group we called the “ROTH”, or the “Row of Total Hilarity”. This was a stellar group of humans […]
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50 for 50
I’ve been great friends with Michael Hubly since 1994 when on a last minute dash I went with a co-worker I barely knew to five transformative days at Club Med. Eventually I would become his Best Man and Hunter would take his Michael for his middle name. Hubs turned Fifty (pronounced “Hyuebs”) and is committed […]
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Birthday Lich – February Painting
Both Ford and I have February birthdays and I was trying to drop some Lichtenstein love on the passage of time. I tried a couple of ways to come up with a good technique for regular Ben-Day dots (I learned that new word), but I think Ford summed it up nicely with “not all of […]
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bouncing, shooting, eating, playing, building
The shopping list included “large fake dinosaur head”, six different types of Pop-Tarts, a second Xbox, six new Nerf guns, 20 passes to the trampoline place and, for me, plenty of “preventative” Advil. The Second Annual Bounce-and-Battle birthday party for Ford was another big hit, already with talk of a summer time “refresher” to keep […]
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The Police #1 of 2
Drift with me back to the early days of 1984. You couldn’t get away from Orwellian puff pieces, Reagan’s re-election campaign was in full swing and The Police Synchronicity tour was en fuego. Synchronicity had spent much of 1983 trading the #1 spot with Thriller and did not realize they were both about to lose […]