To all of the Families and Friends of the Las Vegas shooting victims: My heart is with you in your time of sorrow and grief. To the shooting victims struggling with injuries: My heart is with you and I am hoping for your safe and speedy recovery. This past September marks my five-year anniversary of […]
Bobby Fischer: Best by Test
He was a hero of mine from the time I was 18 years old. His older sister Joan taught him how to play when he was just six. At 13, he played one of the strongest players in the Manhattan Chess Club, sacrificed a queen and a knight, and went on to win that game […]
Push-Ups and the Rio Olympics
One-thousand eight hundred and ninety push-ups in a 2-week period!! I did them during the same time the Rio Olympics were going on, and it never dawned on me that the games may have had a subliminal influence upon my performance. So I started doing push-ups again around April, but this time rather than 3 […]
Working in Sin City
Las Vegas has become the No.1 trade show destination in North America. It’s big business and Vegas does it on a colossal scale. With just under 11 million square feet of prime, mostly state-of-the-art exhibit space, they host some 21,000 meetings, special events and conventions annually! I work some of these trade shows as a […]
Craig’s List, Roommates … and Benefits
People get that surprised look on their face, “Craig’s List, weren’t you scared?” No, but cautious yes. You don’t jump into it – you assess, size up and try to determine if this person’s a good fit. You can learn a lot about someone from an e-mail or from speaking on the phone, and even […]
Please Join Me…
Hello Everyone, As some of you may know, back in 1996 our beloved brother, Robert Adair, was murdered. For the past several years I’ve been involved with the non-profit, Crime Survivors (CSI). www.crimesurvivors.org. CSI provides support and guidance to victims of crime and I serve on their Board since Jan. 2015. Later this month, our […]
The Fab
In February, I invited my brother Danny to see The FAB, a local tribute group known as the ‘Best sounding Beatles band in the world.’ We saw them at the Cannery Hotel & Casino and they performed their Entirety Concert Series, playing all 27 of the Beatles’ No. 1 Hits. The FAB is not a […]
My Sister’s Father: the Latvian Rock Hudson
The marvels of social media! After nearly twenty years of searching, my sister Simone finally found a blood cousin on her father’s side, and by extension, a direct link to her birth father! Simone had always kept an old passport of his that our mom had given to her long ago. It is the only […]
Apple’s iPhone 5s vs. Apollo Guidance Computer
Apple’s iPhone 5s has over 1 Billion transistors in it. They fit on ICs (Integrated Circuits) commonly known as microchips. Ultra-sleek and weighing less than four ounces, this device has become one of the iconic images of the 21st century. The AGC (Apollo Guidance Computer) was the on-board computer for the Apollo 11 space mission […]
My Rockin Summer
It was the summer of ’66 and I was living in Hollywood, CA with two ladies I affectionately refer to as my aunts, Honey and Ann. Cindy, who was a little older than me also lived with us. She was Honey’s daughter and already attending Fairfax High School. I was only 13 at the time, […]
- 1
- 2