Here I Go Again Kim worked for David Coverdale in the 80’s when she started working in L.A. trying to jump-start her musical theater career. She was the personal assistant for the band Whitesnake, who came out with the song in 1982 on the Saints & Sinners album. I’ve always liked the song and did even before I met Kim. There is something so familiar and lonely all at once about the lyrics that suggest…
The Golden Door There is a spa near us, just down the hill on Deer Springs Road across the highway and towards San Marco. It is tucked away quietly on what looks like a quiet winding country road set between the hills. That road is very much like that except for two times a day when it acts as a shortcut between the 78 and the 15 North and gets jammed for about an hour…
Tanks, I Needed That It has been almost a year now since Russia invaded Ukraine in its latest round of aggression against its former significant satellite country to the west. They began their hostilities against Ukraine in the same month (February) in 2014, but the world was in a significantly different place vis-a-vis Russia back then and the global community more or less stood by and let Russia have its way with parts of Ukraine,…
The Population Irony In 2013 I published my first book about the global pension crisis. Pensions involve demographics and the demographics of China at the time were screaming that the thirty plus year old one-child policy of China was becoming an economic and pension issue for China. The fundamental issue is that economic growth cannot be had without population growth. It is an economic credo that is hard to avoid. And China had implemented what…
The Hot Seat Today I am sitting in the breakfast room wearing a blue suit and tie, like I did for the better part of forty-five years during my working life on Wall Street. As much as I am unused to strapping on my business armor at this point in life, I ws never that bothered by dressing the part during my working life. I had gone to four years of prep school during my…
The Hot Seat Today I am sitting in the breakfast room wearing a blue suit and tie, like I did for the better part of forty-five years during my working life on Wall Street. As much as I am unused to strapping on my business armor at this point in life, I ws never that bothered by dressing the part during my working life. I had gone to four years of prep school during my…
The Structure of Retirement Every stage of life has some degree of structure for most of us. Some of us prefer as little structure as possible and some of us need more structure to keep us on track. We are not only all different, but we are different differently at different times of our lives. I find that a certain amount of structure to my life and even to my day is preferable to fully…
In the Dead of the Night There are many things you can call 4am. If you are staying up late to party or for one reason or another, it is the wee hours of the night. When you wake up in the middle of the night as I often seem to do these days, it is right on the cusp at this time of year of being early enough to go back to sleep but…
Duck, Duck, Goose It’s not completely random, but working with different lawyers on expert witness cases can be pretty hit or miss. As a hired gun, I am not in charge of anything in these cases expect the specific opinion that I am asked to render to support my team in the case. Like any lawyer considering accepting a case, I am asked to accept a case based on a minimal amount of research and…
Black Friday I am not sure where Black Friday gets its name since the adjective “black” usually denotes a calamity of some sort. What I do know is that the commercial world wants us to start our Christmas shopping as early as possible. We in America have tacitly agreed to allow Christmas shopping to begin no earlier than Thanksgiving. That logically makes the Friday after Thanksgiving a big retailer day. The retail trade, both brick…