My immediate family consists of my wife, Barbara Fox, my sons Erik and Tom, and their young daughters Paige and Delilah.

Here's Barbara.  

My wife and I just celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary – and all I can say is that it gets better every year. Barbara is a real dynamo, a force of nature. She manages her 50-broker real estate firm, Fox Residential, and handles major transactions. She has been honored with two of the highest awards in the industry – the Henry Forster Memorial Award in 1997 for lifetime achievement in residential real estate, and the Real Estate Board of New York’s Kenneth R. Gerrety Humanitarian Award in 2015 for exemplary services to the community.

In addition to running our two households (including the care of our seven animals and other canines with weekend guest privileges), Barbara runs a pet rescue organization, WOOF!, which has just completed a banner year, rescuing close to 100 dogs and cats from being euthanized in the NYC shelter system. Woof! attends to their health and socialization needs, and then finds them loving new homes. Barbara funds Woof! predominantly on her own, but is appreciative of others who care to generously help out.

            Above all, Barbara is doing her best to keep me youthful – she simply won’t allow me to wither.

I’m enthusiastic about my warm relations with sons Erik and Tom. We share good times, reminisce about joyous moments from the old days, play music together, also tennis and backgammon. I’m supportive where I can be helpful, and from time to time they actually seek some counsel from the old guy. And we conclude most of our frequent phone conversations with a mutual chorus of, “I love you.”

See also the Music section for some further info on Tom’s activities.

Each son has sired a daughter – Tom’s Delilah and Erik’s Paige – and the boys are exemplary fathers. The girls (now  11 and 8) are bright, pretty, warm, and utterly delightful. My times with them are a real tonic, and I feel their warmth toward me is genuine. The sole problem is geography – that these treats can only be savored on a part-time basis. I wish they lived down the block, where I could take more advantage of my good fortune in being a grandfather to these terrific young women.

Here are the six of us at my 80th Birthday Party in July 2014.

Barbara is very close to her grand-niece Kate and grand-nephew Charlie.     

No family compilation would be complete without inclusion of our numerous animals, pictured on our 2014 holiday card.