Who is the richest man in the world? Jeff Bezos? Bill Gates? Warren Buffet? Well… surprise… Vladimir Putin. Yes, the former KBG agent, and current Russian leader is estimated to be the richest man in the world. Forbes can’t confirm, only because much of Putin’s wealth is hidden and slippery. So my beach musing of…
Category: Work, Writing. Reading, Watching
Stories from my prior life in the corporate world and now as a writer
June 10th: The better question
Are you fun to live with?
June 4th: Choosing your friends
“When you go off to college, it will be your first opportunity to truly choose your friends.” … said a teacher of mine, my senior year in high school. “I choose my friends now.” “No,” he replied, “The friendships you have now were basically predetermined based on living in this small town, going to this…
June 2nd: Bucket challenges
The weather altered our plans yesterday. We were back in town, dodging the rain. Wound up at the farmer’s market between storms. We strolled to the booth owned by our wedding cake people. As my wife opened her purse, retrieving her wallet to pay for our purchases, I took a few steps back and leaned…
May 28th: What made America great?
Have you ever written something profound only to have it be deleted forever? This morning, before heading to the beach, I was responding in a fairly long LinkedIn thread. The original commenter accidentally deleted their statement, and all the following comments were cascaded into oblivion. Ok, maybe mine was not exceptionally profound, but I still…
May 21st: Sahlo Folina
Really don’t mind if you sit this one out My word’s but a whisper your deafness a shout – Ian Anderson The utterly simplified history of human work and idleness: In the beginning, humans worked to survive. Like any animals. Smart animals… hunters, gatherers, farmers. Then came civilization slavery, in one form or another. Some lucky…
May 11th: The Battle on the Grand River
After being here over a year, I stumbled upon a fantastic local story. If I was into producing a screenplay based on history, this is one I’d jump on. It has a ginormous monster. A real one. Weighing in at around 37 million tons. Not pounds… tons. Thirty seven million tons. Able to devastate cities…
May 7th: Chernobyl on HBO
Based upon positive reviews, last night I viewed the first episode of “Chernobyl” on HBO. On one level, it is a spectacular horror movie. While the monster is slaughtering people, a few know what is happening. They are dying horrific deaths. But most are blissfully ignorant. Disturbing scenes of the townspeople gathered on a bridge…
April 23rd: Freedom; the escape… and perspective
I have a whole category, “Freedom; the escape”. Blog entries on how I was able to quit my job, sell the house, and move to our simple life, living free on the beach of our choice. Melodramatic? Well, to me intensely real. I’m passionately blissful now, and have been for a year. But how much…
April 20th: Oh, the humanity!
A five-hour, $1 succulent plant sale at Hidden Creek Farm, thirty minutes north of here. Starting at 10:00am. Sounded like a fun little trip for a Saturday. They would have a large variety and 4,000 plants for sale. And fresh-cut tulips for Easter. Then I saw a Facebook post… 300 people “coming”, 2,500 likes, just…