Category Archives: Personal
What is Stickybits?
Today’s post has nothing to do with antiques, but rather my son, Billy Chasen, and his latest creation, Stickybits, which was launched a few days ago. Billy is a software engineer with a very fertile imagination, who would rather be … Continue reading
The show must go on! The adventures of the Intrepid Antique Dealers
I’m writing this post from the passenger seat of a rented car on I-85, north of Charlotte, NC. Now for the story of how we got here. Our scheduled departure for West Palm Beach, FL was today. The Palm Beach … Continue reading
Make the time to smell the roses
Life is short, so after working hard during the year, we make the time to smell the roses. And the roses are in bloom now in the Southern Hemisphere — Argentina in particular. It’s a beautiful, interesting country, where the … Continue reading
The turkeys are back
Having never seen a wild turkey on Long Island for my whole life, I’ve now seen them three times in a month. Today they visited again and this time they brought their friends (or relatives). Today’s visit included a rafter … Continue reading
Wild turkeys on Long Island follow-up
I wrote a blog post on November 3rd about a visit to my home of some local wild turkeys. My son, Billy, thought it was amusing enough to send it to the website reddit.com, so instead of the usual 100 … Continue reading
A visit to the USS New York
What does an antiques dealer do on his day off? Easy. Take his wife to visit the Navy’s newest warship, the USS New York, while it’s docked in New York. And what a wonderful visit it was. Construction of the … Continue reading
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, a surprise!
OK, we’re loading the van, preparing for the Morristown Armory Antiques Show this coming weekend, when Lia (my wife) calls me in the office and says “You’ve got to come down right away and see this!”. So I go downstairs … Continue reading
The road to knowledge is filled with potholes, part I
Marc Bell asked “How did you avoid the pitfalls in the antique lighting business?” Well, Marc, I didn’t. I hit my share of potholes along the learning road. (Do you have an antiques questions? I’ll try to answer them in … Continue reading
We were already in California, so…
We looked on the Internet and checked northern California tourism and discovered the Napa Valley Wine Train. What a treat! There are several options, but the one we chose was the lunch trip. Arrive at 10:30 AM to check in … Continue reading
How I got started in the antiques business
Joe Mollica wrote to me with the following question. How did you get started in the business? The route I took to becoming an antiques dealer is similar to many others in the fact that I was a collector first. … Continue reading