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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
The Night My Basset Hound Almost Burned Me To Death On an Archaeological Dig
There is another funny story about Triste the Bassett Hound during this trip. The mosquitoes were pretty bad. This section of North Florida is very hilly, with very non-porous red clay. So it seemed that every bottomland was a Cypress slough filled with water. I won’t call them swamps. You might. They bred mosquitoes. To […]
Rainbow Bridge
Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge. When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, […]
Boston Drivers
My Dad owned and drove his own taxicab from 1952 to 1956. The first month I was in graduate school in 1973 Mom and Dad came to visit. It wasn’t long before Dad figured out how bad Boston drivers can be. “If I lived here, I’d get an old car and boy, would I have […]