In the late 1990’s, Linda and I lived in NYC at 45 Wall Street.  Strange place to live, but we loved it.  In fact, I loved just about everything about living in NYC. NYC had the best of everything, including radio.  One day, I rented a car and was on my way to apologize to…

Even as a kid, I loved people who could write succinctly and with humor.  Loved an old columnist named Walter Winchell.  He wrote little, right to the point, sentences about the latest gossip or happenings of the day.  Put enough of them together each day to produce the number one newspaper column of his time.…

Now I have to go in hiding from the Grammar Police.  Horrible title, but I will try to make it work. I am a reality kind of guy.  I try to deal with things as they are, not as I wish them to be.  If I do not like the way it is, I may…

Oh the humanity!  Getting out of shape was easy…it just happens.  Getting back into shape…not so easy.  So here is my story… I am active.  I don’t drink, smoke or do drugs.  I am five foot eleven and weigh between 180-185…not anywhere near perfect, but not too bad.  I was an athlete and ran marathons…

The road from Arusha International Airport toward Tarangire National Park is a long, straight, two-lane paved highway. The road can be congested in the daytime with cars, small motorcycles, people walking, vendors hawking, animal drawn carts and small herds of animals tended by one or two Maasai. In most places, there are either bare bones…

I was coming out of Lowe’s in Kona and I see these two old (I’m 71 and they were older than me…so old) hippies waving at me.  They are in an old beat up hippy car.  They have on dirty tie dyed shirts.  They looked a mess.  What in the world did they want from…

Jack was my boss when I worked in the Commercial Home Office of Allstate.  He had held virtually every other important job at Allstate prior to being asked to run our business.  I had known him casually over the years, but quickly got to know him well in his new assignment. This was in the…

My dad was one of the smartest guys I ever met…great technical skills as an engineer and musician and just plain good sense.  He taught me a lot. One of the best lessons he ever gave me was the “Ox in the ditch” advice.  He told it to me throughout my life…until I completely understood…

Sharkie Zartman is a friend of mine.  She is an ex-professional volleyball player, author, teacher, yoga expert and so much more.  She is not the TALL women you might expect of a pro volleyball player…but she made up for he normal size with her abnormal skills and work ethic.  One of her books, Shark Sense…