ABSILVER's World

Should health insurance be like car insurance? Come on... take a walk with me out of your comfort zone.  Especially if you work in corporate America, and you are staring down a 49th birthday and you wonder what is next in your life.  Maybe you have been at this, whatever, for 30 years.  You walk into Starbucks and there is a smiling face looking back at you and you wonder, you are between conference calls,  you worked the weekend toward a deadline and you wonder what does that smiling person looking back at you know that you don't know.  They may surprisingly look like you.  Similar age, and heck maybe even drive the same car, but what may just separate the two of you is a smile because if they are working more than 20 hours a week they have heath insurance. If you have auto insurance.. you know the drill.  What is the first question asked?  do you currently have auto insurance? If you say yes they merrily go on their way of asking a few q...

OK.. in honor of Ivan's post.. I have never written about my view of AEPi in College. Maybe some of this will come as a shock to those of that time, but I was an unusual pledge as I was a sophomore.  Actually didn't imagine wanting to be in a Fraternity and came to this in a very unusual path, and that led me to AEPi. When I was a senior in High School, I actually graduated 10th in my class, I had narrowed down my college choices to Mercer University and UGA.  I happened to be bagging groceries at Red and White and the daughter of the owner had been accepted to Mercer and kept saying how great it was.  Nice Baptist college in a very accepting Georgia town of Macon (smiles).  So, the more I heard about it and frankly a little bit of a desire to show I could go also I applied to Mercer and University of GA among others.  I remember Boston University was recruiting me, but there was no realistic way I could see being in Boston. My folks were skeptical of ...

People say where were you? Where were you when JFK was shot (I was not born yet). They say where were you when you heard John Lennon was assassinated. (I was in High School ). But, where I was 12 years ago has helped to define who I am, how I see my future, and how I see my country. Twelve years ago, I was sitting in my office in Palisades, NY.  I had a team of 15 professionals, and I am sure we were on a call and somebody said did you hear..  I went rushing out to see, and as a conference center, all TV's were on CNN.  Maybe the first hit of the first tower was an accident.  No, there was a second.  Maybe the towers will withstand the hit, maybe .. then people started jumping.  The towers started to crumble and I stared at the TV and watched across the Hudson River as I saw the city that I had admired so much turn into a crisis zone.  Then the Pentagon was attacked and again hope that there are no injuries.  Maybe they wer...