Not A Bad Idea For Valentine’s Day
We caught one of the last performances of a play from playwright Jane Bodie, RIDE, brought over to the US from Australia. It chronicles some of the ironies and potential nihilism of contemporary...
View ArticleIt’s More Than Optics
AIG that perpetual money sucking ‘living dead’ insurer, deemed ‘too large to be allowed to fail’, had a dispiriting announcement of huge bonuses. While ‘outrage’ has been expressed on both sides of the...
View ArticleA Voice Heard Around the World
Last week-end, Susan Boyle stepped friskily onto the stage of a show I’d never heard of (which indicts my militant lack of pop-cultural savvy not the show’s popularity), BRITAIN’S GOT TALENT. Not...
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Always Resetting a New Normal
My wife and I have just returned (despite all manner of resistance from the weather Gods) from Victoria, BC. A few years back, this was an annual pilgrimage to attend what used to be called “The Cherry...
View ArticleNormal is as Normal Does
It’s July 4th in the United States, and we here celebrate the audacious experiment in self-government that was launched through the Declaration of Independence. “We hold these truths to be...
View ArticleAn Abundance of Experiences
Just landed in Hong Kong…what a week! At home in New York last week, discussions with two potential partners, scoping two major assignments, sneaking in a lovely 10 kilometer walk from near the pier to...
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A Tour of Latour!
Superlatives tend to be gushed too readily. “The best ever,” “amazing”, “world class”, etc. But what can you say about the annual event at Hotel Beau Rivage in Geneve, where each year, a highly...
View ArticleWelcome Rituals
Each year if in New York for New Year’s Eve, my wife and I “run away from home”. We live on 56th, just off Park Avenue in New York. So to escape the bedlam of midtown Manhattan and to ensure we aren’t...
View ArticleCommunication Matters!
Yesterday we were flying from New York to Jeddah Saudi Arabia — an arduous trip, mellowed by the superb First Class Suites on board Emirates. We had four hours to “revitalize” at our Dubai “home” of...
View ArticleKnow What You’re There For
I am beginning to worry that ours may, in retrospect, be called “The Age of Obliviousness”. Worrying studies show that the almost 18/7, if not 24/7 barrage of “noise” (via cellphones, Ipods/Pads and...
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