Whenever I went skiing as a teen my mother was not pleased, would tell me it is dangerous, and when she realized that I was going to go skiing anyway she would say to please be careful. I did not think it was ever dangerous. And I poo pooed the warning to be careful. In fact I always say as I get older that as long as I can bend down to buckle my boots, I will keep skiing. Yesterday, skiing with friends, I hit a patch of ice, which happens from time to time.

The recent outbreak of measles has thrown this issue front and center. If you haven't heard, The Washington Post has indentified Disneyland in California as Ground Zero in the current outbreak.  

We recently flew out of LaGuardia on Delta and I was amazed by the upscale 21st Century Delta Terminal. We usually fly American from LAG and the contrast was shocking.  Shocking! Now I know why LaGuardia has been called a third World airport.  Maybe American is third World, but not Delta.  Plus Delta has direct flights to Key West!

This past Tuesday marked the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps in 1945. My Mother had been transported from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp a few months earlier. Her “liberation” would not come until a few months later.  

The talk the past week and a half has been all about Tom Brady, Bill Belichek and the New England Patriots.  The Deflate-gate controversy has the entire sports world buzzing (and justifiably many sick of it).  We won't even mention the two week-long continuing flurry of "deflated ball" jokes.    

  It has arrived. The biggest storm ever, so they say.

I am the victim of a cyber-attack. It began almost three years ago when I was forced to make a motion to be relieved as counsel for a client because he owed my firm a significant fee (five figures). Not only did the judge grant my motion but he awarded me every penny of the outstanding fee and stated that the record indicated that my entire representation of the client had been superb.

I am computer impaired. Some time ago a glass of water spilled on my Apple laptop. It won't allow me to type upper case and ever time you hit a key you get two letters. Our very old Toshiba laptop just gave up two weeks ago. Something like computer heart failure. And three days ago my office computer made a loud pop, then sizzled and smelled like smoke as the screen went dark. I was afraid after that to even touch it. At least we have an iPad. When technology fails, you suddenly feel disconnected.