Memory is a funny thing…I remember: A conversation with Prime Minister Thatcher about her trip to Russia at her son Mark’s engagement party at the American ambassador’s home in London. Shaking hands and conversation with Price Charles discussing tech in the north of England during his visit to Dallas. Discussing Tang figurines with Chinese vice-premier Li Peng who later served as Premier from 1987-1998 and was instrumental in the Tiananmen Square fiasco. Watching baby Chinstrap penguins diving off an iceberg in Antarctica Watching Bluefooted boobies nesting happily in the Galapagos Islands Making sales calls with Ross Perot Standing at ground...
Over the last 50 years or so I have collected bits and pieces of wisdom, poetry, pithy sayings, clever quotations and some outright foolish utterances. These were committed to writing in a myriad of media including note books kept for various reasons, backs of envelops, scratch pads and emails to myself. They tended to accumulate in shoeboxes, long neglected manilla folders, as well as other nooks and crannies. I hesitate to even guess how many I’ve saved…let’s just say a lot. I’ve resolved that now in my 9th decade, I’m going to get things straightened out and squared away…which means, among other things getting rid of...
I read somewhere that 81 % of all white evangelical christians who voted in the Iowa primary voted for DJT. I’ve now gone back and tried to research where I found this nugget, but to no avail. I’m reluctant to use data that I can’t verify from at least two authentic sources, but in this case… this bit raised so many interesting issues that I’ve decided to jump in the deep end without water wings. Syllogistically, the phrase evangelical christians seems at first look to be redundant. I think, but don’t know for sure, that while all evangelicals are Christians, all Christians are not evangelicals. Which then begs the question...
Ok. Is it one or the other? So, let’s start with the basics. This subject comes to mind because I’m old and I think about it a lot, but, more particularly because a government lackey of some sort issued a report which, among other things, accused Biden of being elderly and all that connotes. So I figured it would be worth my while to get to the bottom of this elderly thing.Mr. Merriam and Webster perfunctorily defines elderly as “rather old”. While the Oxford English Dictionary, or OED as it’s commonly referred to and grandfather of all word definers, says this about that, “of, relating to, or characteristic of older people...
I am an Alzheimer’s caregiver. I didn’t want to be. I was not prepared for the job. I had no idea that the tasks involved would be far more complex, far more difficult than anything I had ever done or attempted to do in my life before Alzheimer’s . I’m not sure I can do it. What if I can’t? On February 2, 2017 I was delivered a seven page document entitled “Memory Clinic Neuropsychological Evaluation” which had all the warmth of a treatise on How to Skin a Catfish. My eyes teared over as I scanned the charts and graphs looking for the bottom line…because that’s what I did in business. I finally found it in...
Gary J. Fernandes
After 30 years in the world of big business, Gary “retired” to pursue long ignored interests. While continuing his involvement in the corporate world by serving as a director of several public companies, he has, among other things, traveled the world in pursuit of the perfect bird photograph, served national and local charities as a director and donor, developed a personal web site as a platform for his writing on subjects of personal interest, and, occasionally, taken time to smell the roses.
Gary and his wife Sandra, shuttle between their condo in Dallas and their farm in Fannin county, Texas where they indulge themselves in organic gardening, long walks and entertaining friends and family.
