I first saw Tom at a corporate training program in Princeton New Jersey. The newly enacted ERISA, the 1974 Employment Retirement Income Security Act, written by lawyers and regulated by bureaucrats was a tome of egregious government speak. Tom was delegated with parsing and translating its application to regular folks like us in the divisions….
Category: Musing
THE GETAWAY POSITION
Craig Breedlove recently died. He was 86. I was kinda surprised, hadn’t thought about him in years. Brought back memories of the Mojave Desert, and the Bonneville Salt Flats. He studied aeronautics, was a race car driver, and was called the King of Speed…clocking 600 mph in 1964, never quite making his 800 mph target…
THE MISSIONS
We are well past my birthday. As a kid I was teased a lot for Phil sticking his nose out of his burrow and commenting on the weather. So Mom and I went to mass for my day, which was a feast day, The Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Forty days…
NOT THE DOG
Years ago, when marketer, editor, now agent Molly O’Neill was speaking at a writer’s conference she mentioned a book she was working on. Can’t remember the book, can’t remember the author, but I do remember Molly saying she loved the book but sent it back for edits with the admonishment, ‘not the dog.’ The dog…
TIME
About twelve years ago, on a trip to New York City, we snagged a weekend at the Waldorf Astoria, the Park Avenue well maintained, older, yet elegant hotel in midtown Manhattan East. I don’t remember much of the weekend but I do remember the scrambled eggs I had at Sunday morning breakfast. Listed on the…