Poem, snippets and essays of my life

Category: Economy

  • Hybrid Drivers: Angry or Not?

    Hybrid Drivers: Compassionate or Insane? So every morning Stan and I go for a two mile walk long before most normal folks have even batted one eye. It’s really lovely here by the bay and one can hear many sweet, early morning noises. I used to listen to the news on my IPHONE but one…

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  • This Year

    The year my heroes died This year quite a few of my heroes and friends died: Howard Lester, Walter Shorenstein, Dodie Rosecrans, Dick Goldman, and on and on. Yes, it is true that for the most part their lives were long and fulfilled but I still miss them and always will.  I wonder if we…

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  • Mercury and it’s bad habits

    mercury is in retrograde for the next couple of weeks so don’t expect things to go smoothly. Plus there is a Piceas full moon this afternoon around 1:30. If you try to work anything out with someone you will undoubtedly find yourself frustrated. People these days seem to be lacking good listening skills. They listen with…

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  • Leave time to cool off…

    Hot Things If you take something off the stove after it boils and let it sit, after a while it will cool off. This is my latest credo in life. It works for everything. Love affairs Arguments Business decisions. It is just a great mantra for life. If something feels too hot to handle then…

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  • family wall

    family wall

    In our house in Maine there is a family wall where many memories are drawn or painted. The first measurement of a child’s height was done about 35 years ago when my daughter, Christina, was 2 years old. The wall is now covered with lots of memories and people who visit continue to make more of…

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  • Jobless in the bay area:…

    Jobless in the bay area Today I was lucky enough to be visited by an old friend who I hadn’t seen for 10 years or so. She came because she wanted some interviewing advice and that is what I used to teach: how to sell yourself, how to work a room, how to get the…

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  • Abandonment in the new world:…

    People are either getting better or getting worse as I see it. I haven’t been able to measure which side is growing the fastest yet but I have no doubt we will find that out in very short order. The angry and bitter group is getting frightened and more angry while the optimistic group is…

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  • I dreamt I was taller

    I dreamt I was taller… Last night I dreamt I was taller and was so happy. In my dream I was standing on a doctor’s scale and had extended the height stick so I could show the doctor I had grown. I was surprised, myself, about this event. In my dream I felt more powerful…

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  • Shake it up, baby

    More stuff: I was listening to the radio this morning and hearing Iran and Turkey are trading commodities. Iran is shipping uranium to Turkey in return for more “enriched uranium” for fuel rods to use in medical equipment for cancer research. This piece of news has been received with some hesitation as it does not…

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  • What did you hear today?

    What did you hear today?

    I heard from a banker that he agreed with me on the market outlook, saying the “blip” in the market was a terrorist attempt to see if the stock market could be manipulated. Isn’t that interesting? There is a definite shift happening. I wonder almost hourly what my role should be in all of this.…

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