Virginia Mary Allen August 18, 1920 – November 11, 2007

When Mom passed away on Sunday morning, one of the many kind nurses at the hospital said, “I am sorry for your loss.” I was sad, but in those very spiritual moments after Mom was just getting to heaven, I felt more at peace than sad. I also felt an over powering feeling of gratitude. […]

Now That I’ve Lost Everything to You

It was raining when I took the water taxi to town. My clothes were damp from the rain, but it wasn’t cold enough to be annoying. I walked through town and got even wetter, not caring, and found the things I needed; bananas, a plantain, fruits and vegetables, a piece of snapper, and a bottle […]

Four-Plus One Streams of Wealth: Stream 3 and 4

Four-Plus One Streams of Wealth: Stream 3 and 4, Create The Great Middle Class While Plus 1 Provides Little Benefit The British Empire can safely lay claim to be the source of the industrial revolution. It’s easy to trace the development of useful science from Italy where Galileo showed those who would listen that the earth was […]

Four-Plus One Streams of Wealth: The First Two Streams

This story is Part Two of Four. The first is Education, Training and the Middle Class Wealth Creation I propose that there are Four-Plus-One Streams of Wealth creation, all driven by work, which creates and distributes wealth. The rest is meta-work, which does not create wealth but rather takes it from those who create it. Meta-workers […]

Education, Training and the Middle Class

Americans don’t resent the wealthy, nor do people around the world. Most know they will never be rich. They don’t care. What they do expect is to have economic hope, a sense that they will be free from fear of economic insecurity. There is flexibility in defining hope and expectation, which are different around the […]

Another Night in Bangkok

The Chinese fight attendant smiled at me and I wanted to fall in love. She was pretty and so kind it almost makes the trouble of this trip worth it. This leg of the trip is almost over and I will be in Shanghai soon. I woke up early at the Patumwan House at 6AM […]

Boys, Work and War

I never saw my father work. Well, I saw him DO some work, but never at the place called Work. He left the house at 6AM to go to work, and was rarely home before 6PM. He went to Work. What the hell does that mean? Work was a place to me. Until I was […]

Reality Models and The New Science of Fixing Things

It felt like a knife to the hip, being twisted when I moved. What a start to the year! My hip was so painful that I couldn’t walk. When I got to the hospital, I found myself in a wheelchair. Nothing I could think of set it off. I didn’t fall on the ice or […]

Sweet Home Alabama

Bill called around 5PM or so and we left for a 4th of July party in Mobile, Alabama. We drove along the same route I used to take to get to the Dog River Marina before I sailed from Alabama to Panama, then turned left to go to a house right on the west bank […]

Phnom Penh, Cambodia 2012

For my friends who worried that I would, I did; someone stole my heart. When I leave, I will carry a heavy heart until I can come back. I will miss her, and I know she will miss me. I see her every day now. When I went into the mini-mart yesterday in Phnom Penh, […]