The Lessons of 2009

Two thousand nine has now pretty much flown the coop. I am not sorry to see it go and I know I’m not alone. There are many who are experiencing the same sort of situation I am: the loss of a job in a sparse job market, and the...

Members Needed

Not long after our last episode, in which I became a chauffeur driving Lincoln Town Cars full of well-heeled visitors to and from the airport, I received an offer to host, on an interim basis, “All Things Considered” at Orlando’s...

The Adventure Continues

Remember that old Monty Python intro: “And now for something completely different…”?  That keeps coming back to me in recent days.

In our last episode, I had just moved to Orlando, without a job, and, for the first time in...

Change: The Only Constant

So after living out of a suitcase for all of August (which, I have to admit, is better than living in a suitcase), I arrived in Orlando to begin my new life last Wednesday, August 26. It was two days after my 55th birthday.

I...

In Flux

There’s a certain sort of sad symbolism to this, I guess: Twenty years ago, when my wife and I moved from Central Florida to Happy Valley, we crammed everything we owned from a three-bedroom house into a 26-foot Penske rental...

The Road is Long

If you still have last month’s column dealing with Sunday Night Anxiety, you can disregard it.  At least as it pertains to me. You may still suffer from Sunday Night Anxiety, but I no longer do.  In fact, nothing I...