Learning a Foreign Language
Years ago, more years ago than I care to mention, my wife and I with two sons ages 8 and 6 moved to Italy to live, specifically to Milan in the industrial north. I was offered a job to work for an Italian engineering company which was looking for an American manager for their infant […]
Heat Wave
The last two years of atmospheric temperature have amazed and frightened me. Back some 70 years ago, the US Air Force sent me to school to get a masters degree in meteorology. I worked as a weatherman for the Air Force for years and then for a bit at TWA before joining IBM. I also […]
Dangerous Advertising
Once upon a time in 1953 there was a book, there still is, called The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard. It introduced the reader to the psychological approach to advertising. It described the customer’s needs that advertising aimed at to sell products. In the 70 years since, this psychological and subliminal approach to advertising, compounded […]
Locating Old Friends
One of the tragedies of growing old is that you lose friends. I guess it’s either them or me. Sure there are new friends. Life goes on. But the old friends are linked with memories you don’t have with the new ones. I recently lost my closest friend of some 70 years and I miss […]
Breaking The Smoking Habit – Permanently
Most of us remember significant dates in our lives, birthdays, anniversaries and so on. Some dates are universal like December 7th, Pearl Harbor or June 6th, D-Day. A date very significant for me is June 5th which is my fathers birthday. Why is that so important for me, you may ask? That was the day […]
