Blog Archives: January 2014 — December 2014

Do you have that Christmas spirit yet? How can you get in the Christmas mood? Maybe it's going to NYC and seeing "the tree" and all of the window displays on 5th Avenue, or maybe it's shopping or decorating your house. Maybe it's watching your favorite Christmas movie like "Miracle on 34th Street," or "It's a Wonderful LIfe" or "White Christmas." One of my favorite "Christmas" movies is "Elf." Will Ferrell plays Buddy, a giant, adopted elf who goes on a journey from the North Pole "through the seven levels of the Candy Cane forest, through ...

Do you know those types who always walk around with a tune in their head, singing it for everyone to hear? That's not my daughter Emily. If she's got a tune in her head, she's not sharing it with me. Emily loves animals, she loves riding horses, but she doesn't seem to love singing. She didn't even sing Happy Birthday to me on my 50th birthday. So imagine my surprise when Emily joined Shrek, the Rye Neck musical, singing and dancing up on stage. If she had any stage fright you wouldn't have known it. You could see her filled with joy as she ...