Category: Focus — Single Person

  • COPENHAGEN SNUFF

    At the moment, I am involved with this essay on the horns of a modest dilemma.  The dilemma has to do with the Republican Party whose candidate in the year 2012 in all likelihood will be Mitt Romney. As it turns out Mitt Romney is a Mormon.  This may be hard to be believed in…

  • A.W.K. UND STALIES

    As most of you are aware, I spent a good part of my time with the Bell System in the field of labor relations.  The management of AT&T, principally Verne Bagnell, decided in July of 1951 that I should become a management employee.  There were two moves in the future to Kansas City and then…

  • TOO SOON OLD…

    For the past 12 or 15 years, I have been a friend of Gregorio Russo.  Gregorio works in the produce department of the Whole Foods Market.  In the former location of the Whole Foods Market, he was the first person who came into view as you entered the market.  Now that market has moved to…

  • …LOVE HER, LOVE HER, LOVE HER

    The title of this essay comes from a song in the stage production of Camelot.  It opened on Broadway in December, 1960.  That means that the production of the Broadway play is now 50 years old.  When I hear the songs from that show, in particular as performed by Samuel Ramey, it brings back memories…

  • TIM TEBOW’S TRAVAILS

    I hope and pray that you will recall an essay in the last mailing having to do with a professional quarterback who contends that he is a virgin.  I have nothing against professional football players, particularly quarterbacks, who contend that their virginity is intact.  But taking one thing with another and with the state of…