November 2017 Dave died at the end of November, 2012. He was 76 and had been dealing with congestive heart failure for more than a decade. He said he was surprised he outlived our father who died at 70 from lymphoma. Dave was six years older than I was. When we were kids and our…
Summer, 2015 (updated Nov 2017) Growing up, I often heard my father talk about the family trust fund, of which he was a beneficiary. It had been set up by the bequests of “Grandpa Lewis” –as Aunt Virginia called him— when he died in 1927. Grandpa Lewis was a “mad hatter” in Washington DC. at…
November 2017 As I was digging through some old files the other day, I came across a 20-inch by 10-inch black and white photo of my 1965 graduating class from the Army’s clerk-typist school in Fort Polk, Louisiana. There I was, young and physically fit, with my temporary corporal stripes, standing with the most…
November 2017 While I was at Brown University, the only thing I did outside of classes, studying and working in the library was work at the college radio station, WBRU. I learned more about politics and business at WBRU – a closed circuit station that broadcast only on campus – than in any of my…
November 2017 Nuclear plants have become very expensive. Two new advanced nuclear plants currently being built in the United States today are planned to cost $7,000 per kilowatt hour, far more expensive than a new gas plant, for example. We wouldn’t even think of spending so much but for the fact that we have an…