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Following the end of my first marriage some 37 years ago (Shana and Joshua), for the past 35 years I have been married to Pnina Bright (Benjamin). Pnina is Professor of Psychology at Nassau Community College.
Shana and her husband Scott reside in Baltimore. Scott is the CTO in a biomedical company and Shana a busy mom, also works for southwest airlines. I have two grand kids (Talya age 13 and Noah 10). Joshua pursues his career with a start-up company in Los Angeles, and my youngest, Benjamin, now 31, a lawyer, after a year with a major international law firm begins a one-year clerkship in the Southern District of New York Federal Court, and the following year a clerkship in the New York Federal Appellate Court.
For 43 years, I had been Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, in the Graduate School of the City University of New York; my office and laboratory on the campus of City College.
As of 2014 I closed my research laboratory and am officially retired from academia, now Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience.
Apart from this change, my clinical practice continues, as I still gain much pleasure from this work. However, I have changed my practice to a tele-psychological practice. No longer have I a fixed office, I see all patients, video and voice, using Facetime or Skype.
Pnina is some distance from retirement and as such much remains the same. We continue to live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan (across from Central Park) and maintain our year-round home in Sag Harbor. We spend our workweek in Manhattan, weekends, holidays, and summers in Sag Harbor. In addition, we also own a highrise condo in West Palm Beach, consider ourselves snowbirds and try to get down there for brief stays when we can. Our annual trip abroad this summer was to St. Petersburg and Moscow. There is still so much yet to see in the world, but with my aging I feel like time is running out.
I continue to have good health exercising regularly (and running on an elliptical machine the equivalent of 5 miles every other day). As such, I am still able to ski black diamond slopes (Alta, Deer Valley and Park City, Utah) and sail my 35' sloop (primarily in and around the Sag Harbor waters on the east end of Long Island).
I also have a Hobie Tandem Island kayak and this past March undertook a challenge kayaking from Tampa Bay, Fla. down the inland waterway through the everglades to Key Largo (some 300 miles). Unfortunately, I ran into some bad weather and had to terminate somewhere just short of Everglades City. Disappointed, hopefully if I continue in good health I am planning to try the challenge again next year.
Finally, when I can find the time, another of my pleasures is reading (primarily nonfiction, including biographies, politics, history, and behavioral economics). Although lately I have gotten side-tracked by my addicted attention to the presidential cycle.
Of course, full retirement is ever more-so on my mind, but I am not ready to end my clinical practice, at least not yet.
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