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 […]
Phil’s Press is Updated
I quit the research team in the Everglades in January 1969. I told Aaron and Murph, the geologist and biologist who led our team, that we knew all we needed to save the Earth. What we needed was action. And Nixon was about to be inaugurated President, and even then, I was so blue I […]
Hair
The cast of Hair played at the Coconut Grove Playhouse. We are all hanging out in Peacock Park with them one night late after the performance. NASA or someone had gotten the looney idea to shoot a rocket into the Van Allen radiation belts and release strontium and barium to see what would happen. Say, […]
Travels with Phil Twelve – Cedar Lakes Woods and Gardens
This series is NOT just about New York! In North Florida, due inland from Cedar Key, there was a 100-year-old lime rock quarry. In 1991 Dr. Raymond Webber discovered it and over time it went through several iterations under his care until it ended up as one of the most incredible freshwater botanical gardens anywhere […]