Ethics Two
The next mentor I consulted must remain nameless because he is the second example here of “Ethics costing me money!” He was such a significant actuary that a Federal District Judge once appointed him a special master to protect the pension for the employees of a national airline that went bankrupt. My personal […]
It Isn’t Ethics Until It Costs You Money
Many years ago Bill Moyers had a documentary series on Public Television called “Ethics.” I remember one thing very clearly, perhaps because I had more than one opportunity to live it. He was interviewing the president of the Peterson Institute of Ethics in California who said: “Around here we don’t call it ethics until […]
The Soup Nazi
I have been doing business in New York City since 1994. As many of you may know by now, I have had clients in New York City since then, when I was asked to come there to help a person who had come into some money due to an unfortunate circumstance. The $250,000 she had […]
“I am a Caffeine Based Life Form and I honor my Ancestors!”
I spent the summer of 1964 studying organic chemistry at the Rochester Institute of Technology. This was on a National Science Foundation Grant for bright high school students. I do not remember how I got it. I guess one of my high school teachers put me up for it. We somehow had time on our […]
Cultural Ecology
Having been on a scientific research team actually studying ecology, my main interest during my brief career as an anthropologist was a field called Cultural Ecology. It was the study of the feedback loop from our changing the environment which then forces our culture to adapt to its new environment! Yep, going on today at […]
No War Toys
I met Carol and Jack when I left home after the altercation with my Mother (that story is told in the Unpublished Post referred to in the opening act. If this ever sees the light of day as an autobiography it will appear there. Chilling!). I lived with them for almost a year until I […]
John’s Papal Blessing
My father-in-law, John O’Hara, was a devout Catholic. He was born in 1918. His mother Mabel and his father had just gotten off the boat from Ireland when Mabel was widowed by the Flu Pandemic with a newborn. John eventually had the good fortune to have a well-off person in New Port Richey become his […]
Becky’s First Car
I left for Boston University in the Fall of 1973 for my doctorate in Anthropology. Janis and I missed each other, to say NOTHING of not being able to afford the phone calls. Yeah, you paid for a long-distance phone call those days! When I returned to Tallahassee for the winter break she decided to […]
Boy Scout Camp
Camp Sebring was the place you wanted to go to in South Florida as a Boy Scout when I was a kid. It is closed now. We all piled into a rail car at the tail end of a Florida East Coast Railroad train for the trip there. I do not remember how many summers […]
The Embryo
Quite a story behind its “birth”! I will get to it. In the meantime, I didn’t want you all to have to wait to see it. If the PDF viewer below does not work for you, you can open the PDF directly by clicking on the following link: The Embryo