Category: Memoir

Stream of Consciousness One of the pros/cons of being a storyteller is that you occasionally stumble over some old prose you’ve filed away in a remote corner of your Dropbox.  Such is this stream from several years ago. Aug. 9th, 2017 My name is Richard A. Marin, but I go by Rich.  I am a 40+ year financial professional, most of that spent on Wall Street, but more recently focused on real estate development.  I’ve…

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Mark Antony in Sanskrit I went to high school in Rome, Italy.  I took four years of Latin, which my UN diplomat mother swore would make me a better person.  I can quote the opening lines to Caesar’s Gallic Wars, which has really come in handy over the years.  Since I am neither a doctor nor lawyer, as best I can tell, I was best able to use “living Latin” while I was in Rome…

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