Around 1995, a good family friend told me that she had met an unusual person. He was a frequent customer, along with his wife, at the trendy restaurant she and her husband owned. This fellow was well known since he had been the attorney for the famous/notorious financier Marc Rich, the same Mr. Rich who…
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Thoughts in the very New Year of 2020
January 2020 After nearly forty years in the semiconductor industry, I retired at age sixty in 2002. Those were fascinating, halcyon years in this amazing business, and my career transitioned from early hands-on technical and middle management, then to business and senior management, and finally to strategy and business relationships (Joint Ventures, IP Licensing,…
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Confessions of a Late-In-Life Writer
Thanks for reading this. Each person's time is valuable, and if you are so gracious to allot a small amount to me, it's much appreciated and valued. OK, I've said it. Hey, at the age of seventy-five, following a passion for writing, it's all a struggle. The mind is not as fresh, and all those…
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Book Clubs. What a Nice Thing!
I've been meaning to comment about how much fun it is to be in a book club now for several months. Of course the term itself is really broad, including national umbrella organizations such as the Oprah Book Club, local library book clubs, church book clubs, and individual groups of people who meet in members'…
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