Memorial day to fly away

July 2, 2008

I haven’t been on a plane since being in a bad car accident in late 03. I used to fly 4 to 6 times a year both personal and professional trips. It was a joy to get away and relax on a plane. The thought now of flying doesn’t thrill me not because I am […]

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Gimp Tennis

June 18, 2008

My prosthetist (that’s an amputee technician) Gary Berke, invited me to a tennis clinic for all of us physically challenged. I went to support him but didn’t think I would play. After all, look at me. Before I knew it, they had 8 of us on the court doing little drills first from the baseline […]

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Pain in the Ass!

May 18, 2008

I just had an annual physical and they wanted to do a colonoscopy- yuck! I wouldn’t mind if all my plumbing was still in the right place. But after the accident I was in, everything is a little off from where it should be. So I decided to have a virtual colonoscopy- where they only […]

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Ameriprise is a real surprise!

May 14, 2008

“Financial Advisors forged customers signatures at least 96 times in order to articficially inflate sales volume. and to hide the fact that they hadn’t met commitments to deliver completed financial plans.” -WSJ4/10/08 Okay, you say, a few bad apples. So what? The firm’s signature product is its low cost financial plan delivered to clients in […]

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Bear Bail Out- Where’s Mine?

April 11, 2008

I am still in shock over the Fed bailout of Bear Stearns by Jamie Dimon, CEO JP Morgan. The price was so low ($2) that shareholders raised a fuss and so they raised it to $10. Many people are saying if they made bad bets on the market, then they should pay the price and […]

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DayDreamer

March 31, 2008

At my eight grade graduation, my teacher wrote a poem and in it, she described her students. She had a little quip about each one of us- the diva, the scholar, the drama queen, the comic, etc. I couldn’t wait to see what she would say about me. I was so disappointed when she called […]

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New Writing Group

March 11, 2008

Now that I am settled in Mountain View CA, I wanted to find a local writing group. When I lived in San Francisco, there was a small group that were an offshoot of a Natalie Goldberg writing workshop who got together once a week to write. After I got out of the hospital, I took […]

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Watch them Squirm

February 26, 2008

Ok, folks, set your Tivos for thursday for the best show ever- Watch three of our country’s finest CEOs- the former head of Citibank, Countrywide, and Merrill Lynch testify before a congressional committee defending their outrageous compensation packages while their companies reported massive losses and millions of Americans will lose their home. This is going […]

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End of an Era-WSJ

February 12, 2008

read with dismay over the decision of the Bancroft family to sell the Wall St. Journal to Rupert Murdoch of News Corp (they make Fox news and other slimy stuff). I grew up and grew my career with the Wall St. Journal newspaper. I learned a lot from my favorite journalists. The Pulitzer Prize winner, […]

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Treadmill Avoidance

January 21, 2008

My main mode of exercise since my accident is walking, walking fast, and lifting weights. I work out with a personal trainer twice a week, and see an acupuncturist every other week and take the dog for a long walk on the treadmill or around the neighborhood or mall other times. I prefer the treadmill […]

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