Aha Moments

I’m reading the new Malcolm Gladwell book David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, and I’m getting a lot out of it,with two points really hitting home. My first “Aha” came from Gladwell’s description of an extremely successful Hollywood mogul and the values and experiences that formed the character traits

12 Dec, 2013
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Fade Out Blockbuster

I was sitting at an outdoor café a couple of nights ago and noticed a photographer taking pictures of the exterior of the video store next to where I was sitting.I quickly concluded that the photographer wanted to document the demise of the video store industry due to Blockbuster Video’s announcement that the company was

5 Dec, 2013
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Reflections on Chanukah and Thanksgiving Happening on the Same Day This Year

All four of my grandparents escaped Eastern Europe’s pogroms, mass killings of Jews,around the year 1900, and immigrated to America. Being Jewish has been a big part of my identity, and I have a very strong sense of Jewish values and traditions, but I’m not religious. I was born in the 1940s, part of

27 Nov, 2013
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Who Are the True Rock Stars of Fine Art?

Last week when I was in New York, my girlfriend, Jo, and I visited four of my favorite art museums: the Metropolitan, the Museum of Modern Art, the Frick, and the Whitney. I’ve been painting oil portraits for 25 years, while Jo’s art forms are culinary and tango, not visual art, and since this was

21 Nov, 2013
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Broadway Plays as a Glimpse into Life

Richard Bach, one of my favorite authors, introduced me to the concept that when we are truly ready for the answers they appear on any page we are reading.I’m writing this while flying back from six days in New York City, where I went to four Broadway plays and noticed that Bach’s lesson couldn’t be

12 Nov, 2013
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