I had one of “those” nights the other night. We’ve all had them. As time ticks away my eyes wouldn’t close. I saw 2:00 a.m. pass by and then 3:00 pass by. And, as time continued to tick by, my anxiety about being well rested for my early morning court appearance grew steadily.

The first lines of Dante's classic Inferno, part one of the three part Divine Comedy, are:   "Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark,

Start a micronation. You can print your own stamps and even money. There are about 98 active micronations across the planet from Australia to Antartica. They are not officially recongnized by the government but that doesn't stop them from trying.   They even had a conference this year...Micro Con 2015. Here are some of the micronations that attended:

Following up on last week's blog, I was honored last Friday by the Russo family Theresa Foundation.  One of the honoree responsibilities is to help raise donations to the Foundation. I am very pleased to report that with the help of our Gotham Networking Tribe we broke the previous record by 25%. This was very satisfying and I thank everyone involved, contributors included, for this team effort.

I don't consider myself to be a fashion statement; although the other day an adversary told me that my tie reminded her of a Klimt painting as we digressed to a brief discussion of the movie Woman in Gold.

Have you been? I had the great good fortune to have to take a bunch of people there just this week.

  Well, not really dangerous in the technical sense of the word.

I was in a bakery last week when a sign on the display caught my eye. The sign read  “Swiss Rolls.” Looking at that sign immediately brought me back to my parents’ house and into their kitchen.