IN MEMORY - March 14, 2015

After graduating from Wesleyan, I took a year to work in Stockholm and Paris, and then five months touring Europe and Morocco on my first motorcycle, a Honda Dream.

I returned to attend NYU law school, and became a New Yorker. I clerked for a federal judge, worked in a couple law firms, and for Pan Am.

I lived in Greenwich Village, built a weekend house upstate with a couple law school buddies.

In due course, I met, fell in love with and married Jane Silver, a dietitian, in 1973. We honeymooned on motorcycle #4, a Suzuki Titan, and had an exciting couple years traveling all over the world with our Pan Am flight benefits, all the while living a modestly bohemian Village life.

Jane and I bought the movie theater in Cold Spring, NY, in the most beautiful part of the Hudson Valley. When our son Ethan was born on Bastille Day, 1976. We decided that was a good time to leave the City, and adopt an exurban life style. We moved into an apartment above the theater, while I started a private practice, and Jane worked as a dietitian, mostly in nursing homes.

After a few years I accepted an appointment as an Assistant Attorney General in the NYS Law Department.

When Ethan was in the third grade we decided he needed a more challenging school system. That and my new employment resulted in our moving from the grand Victorian house we then had in Cold Spring to Poughkeepsie, which got Ethan the schools he needed, and coincidentally shortened my commute significantly. (I bought my BMW R100T to ride to the many Hudson Valley courts and institutions that required my presence as an AAG.).

Ethan has been a pleasure. We like to think he inherited his mother's Jewish sense of humanity, and his father's wit and mild cynicism. He was always a good student, got a little tough playing travel hockey (Poughkeepsie Journal All Star!) and had lots of good friends to help keep him grounded.

He is a cum laude graduate of Duke. He knocked around California for three years, and returned to New York to attend the Columbia School of Architecture. After graduation he began his career in Taos, NM, before moving on to Portland, OR, where he now resides.

When the people of the State of New York had the atrocious judgment to elect a Republican Attorney General, my career as an AAG came to a precipitous end.

Jane and I took advantage of that opportunity to re-occupy the former movie theater and open a small antiques mall, Bijou Galleries, Ltd. (Bijougalleries.com). We have enjoyed working together almost daily for nearly 15 years. It's usually stress free, gives Jane time to pursue cultural interests in NYC, and me time to ride my "last motorcycle", a Suzuki Vee Strom, off into the sunset, so to speak.