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2016
La Leyenda de Fidel - Seeing Fidel Castro in Person Perdone, no hablo mucho espanol (pero quiero!), entonces continuo en ingles. I believe it was late spring of 1977 when I met Fidel Castro in Havana,Cuba. It was on a rare occasion of an international exploratory business meeting, to which select...
11/26/2016
I LOVE MY SMART DRIVING MACHINE AND I’M GRATEFUL FOR IT! My car is much smarter than I am and it’s a good thing. For example, my keyless entry Bimmer will not allow me to lock the keys inside the car when I leave. I tried… albeit not on purpose, and the car would not lock. The car informs me w...
11/20/2016
I AM THANKFUL FOR MY TSA PRE-CHECK STATUS WHEN I FLY Next time you hear complaints about the long lines at the airports and finger-pointing as to whose fault it might be, suggest a mirror… Often the culprits are the very people who so desperately try to get through security in a hurry. Why? There...
11/19/2016
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I AM GRATEFUL FOR MY LITTLE RODENT… My rodent of choice happens to be a mouse, in this case a little Apple smart Bluetooth mouse (where did that name come from, anyway?). While desktop computers are routinely used with a mouse, laptops generally rely on trackpads. Apple trackpads are actually p...
11/17/2016
I AM THANKFUL FOR A DAY OF WORSHIP… SUN WORSHIP, THAT IS. I am thankful for a day or worship… sun worship, that is, or a day at the beach, if you prefer. Either way, for a permanent resident of Connecticut and part time resident of Miami, a sunny, beautiful day of high seventies, low eighties in...
11/17/2016
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I AM THANKFUL FOR THE RISING SUN As part of Debbie Reynolds' Thanksgiving ten-day challenge, I’d like to pay simple homage to our very own star, the Sun. It gives so much. We are grateful for the sun rising every morning, it is one of the very few a priori events in our lives, but what if it did...
11/15/2016
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ZAHA HADID LEAVES HER MARK ON MIAMI Who is Zaha Hadid? Below is a write up on Zaha Hadid from Wikipedia: Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid, DBE (Arabic: زها حديد Zahā Ḥadīd; 31 October 1950 – 31 March 2016) was an Iraqi-born British architect. She was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architectu...
11/15/2016
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNER'S OF TODAY'S MARATHON IN NEW YORK CITY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2016 The race is 26.2 miles and meanders through all New York City boroughs. MEN'S WINNER: Ghirmay Glebreslassie of Eritrea Time: 2 hours, 7 minutes, 51 seconds WOMEN'S WINNER: Mary Keitany of Kenya Time:...
11/06/2016
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7 THINGS EVERY KID NEEDS TO HEAR I wish I could take credit for this list of seven things, or at least give proper attribute to the author, but I do not remember where I found it. It's probably circulated around; I even have seen a remark that seemed to mock the list... For me, all the concep...
11/06/2016
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ART OR REALITY - WHAT IMPRESSES YOU MORE? Who hasn’t seen Monet’s dreamy renderings of a bridge over a water lily pond? After all, there are quite a few of those paintings, twelve finished ones in all. They have become world-famous and grace many a museum’s impressionist art sections. There is...
11/05/2016