Category: Life Lessons

Congratulations to the Reddit message board, the Robinhood investing App and all their Merry Men. Finally, a chance for the “little guys” to get into the market and build a sound base of financial security. The past weeks have introduced a paradigm shift in investing. Robinhood has been around a lot longer than many of…

Vernon and I were both relieved when we taxied clear of the runway at the airport in Asunción, Paraguay. It had been a long, hard flight that had started out in Baranquilla, Colombia, delivering a single prop airplane with a cruising speed of about 100mph, following the eastern shoreline of South America to stay away…

Nasser and I became friends while I was an expatriate American, employed in the United Arab Emirates. My wife and I lived there for 28 very enjoyable and fulfilling years.I would often encounter Nasser at the majlis* of Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, a member of the royal family of the Emirate of Abu…

“One Trick Poney – One trick is all that horse can do..” Recently a young man was helping me with a purchase in Best Buy. I was searching for a central charging device that could get me back in control of my spiraling collection of Apple devices. In our discussion he learned that I was…