How I Lost My Hair and Beard 50 Years Ago
For a number of reasons, which I might write about later, I did not finish my doctorate in anthropology. While I was in Boston in graduate school I did construction on the side. When we moved back to Miami to get married I continued doing that. It was primarily painting. I got a contract to […]
Travels with Phil 13 – Pasaquan
Eddie Owens Martin, St. EOM, The Wizard of Pasequan, created one of the most incredible primitive art installations in the United States. I am not even going to try to describe it because it would take a book, so look at the two pictures on this page and click on the link because whatever it […]
Nan Lee Haston
You’ve read some of Nan Lee’s poems in these posts. In the section called Phil‘s Press I believe I have an article from the student newspaper at Miami Dade College with her picture. She was frankly one of the most beautiful women I think I have ever met. I don’t just mean her looks; her […]
Three Generations of Chartered Life Underwriters
I have a professional designation, CLU, Chartered Life Underwriter, granted by the American College. I earned it in 1980 after four years of study while working full time. My father earned it in 1960. It was founded at Wharton in 1927 by Dr. Solomon Huebner. At tha time very few people had investment advisors brokers […]
The Bumper Sticker Story
The back of my car is covered with bumper stickers. Given that it’s a 20 year-old Camry with 215,000 miles, the joke is that it is being held together by the bumper stickers! Even funnier, when I come out of a store there are people standing there reading my bumper stickers!. I cannot tell you […]
An omission in the new food pyramid
My Feminist Credentials
At one time, Janis and I got marital counseling. We found a psychologist with a PhD in clinical psych from the New School for Social Research in Manhattan. Who also happened to be Jewish! What in the world was she doing Tallahassee? Her husband had gotten hired to run a program for Florida. After we […]
Wide Right
Florida State University for decades under Bobby Bowden (it’s legendary coach; one of the two winningest coaches ever until the Penn State coach had his games discounted because of the sexual abuse scandal at Penn State University) had a couple of years where a missed field goal lost games to the important rival University of […]
What, Me? Focus?
If this narrative seems disorganized blame it on my ADHD. We discovered this when Iwas an adult. In the fifties you were just a badly behaved child. What happens to ADHD children when they grow up? They become ADHD adults! My psychiatrist wanted to try Ritalin but in the atmosphere of the late twentieth century, […]
The A3F Story
My father taught high school science. It is a story I have told in his own history here. His frustration at not having continued teaching led him to turn me into a baby scientist practically from the time I was born, with consequences I have talked about in other posts! Given his pedagogical bent, he […]