About five years ago my wife Nancy and I took a trip to the Hawaiian Islands. A friend of ours who was almost immobile as a result of an auto accident asked if I could write about our trip so he could envision it as if he were going with us. It was a long trip spending the first seven days on the big Island of Hawaii in the fanciest hotel I’ve ever stayed at. There were four islands within the com...

After 35 years of good hearing without a hearing aid I notice I had difficulty making out what children were saying to me. They have high pitch voices, the very tones I had the most loss even after the operations. Basically the corrective surgery, called a stapendectomy, improved the lower tones to normal and the high pitch tone vastly improved but still below normal. Now an audio test showed a re...

As soon as I knew I would be moving on from my prior job I drafted a resume for distribution. Within one week I was invited to apply for a job just three blocks away from my existing location in the Mobile building in mid-town Manhattan. I told my employer I would be a little late the morning of the interview. I was an exempt employee who spent many hours overtime without any additional compensati...

In Tampa that Monday I met three other newly hired men and the man in charge of our group. We were then introduced to the plant or profit center personnel as internal financial consultants from the corporation. We were there to help them build and show them how to use a flexible budget, an integral part of a profit plan. In the beginning all of us worked together at the Tampa sight. We had to lear...

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