Where Were You When

Where Were You When Most of us remember vividly where we were on September 11, 2001. In my case, I was in Danbury, Connecticut in the board room at Bristol Technology meeting with their CEO, Keith Blackwell. Remember where you were when you first heard that President Kennedy was assassinated? Or maybe when Jerry Garcia […]
When Have We Seen Enough Drug Advertising?

Custom image created by Perplexity AI When Have We Seen Enough Drug Ads on TV? One of the topics I have written numerous magazine articles about and been on-the-air in interviews about has been direct-to-consumer (DTC) TV advertising of prescription drugs. I felt strongly about the issue more than ten years ago and feel even […]
Digital Democracy Project

Serving on boards, both corporate and non-profit, is a very rewarding experience. Not financially — but in the sense that you have been able to help with a new idea, or to share an experience that can be helpful. I have been privileged to have served on a number of boards. The two largest organizations […]
Solar

s Solar For as long as I can remember, I have believed the sun would ultimately be our main source of power. The sun is a nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, roughly 4.6 billion years old, which generates energy through nuclear fusion, a science which has attracted billions of dollars for research to reproduce […]
At Home

I was in the hospital for 57 days battling radiation cystitis. The end result was a cystectomy to remove the bladder. Incredibly complex surgery.