The 88 year old mayor of Missassauga Canada is a true inspiration. Is she for real? See the video.
Mayor Hazel
June 3, 2009 by tom paperMy New Parental Mentors…The Rolling Stones
May 12, 2009 by tom paper
So my five-year old son is telling me about the other kids, whose parents by them all these cool Star Wars Lego sets, and all I can think of to set him straight is the following: “Michael, listen up, buddy. You can’t always have what you want, but if you try some time, you might just find, you get what you need.” My next favorite parently mentor: The Berenstein Bears. Check ‘em out, parents.
Full Circle Fund
May 10, 2009 by tom paper
My friend Jayne Hillman is a part of the Full Circle Fund, a community philanthropy group. Sounds fascinating: “Full Circle Fund is an engaged philanthropy organization cultivating the next generation of community leaders and driving lasting social change in the Bay Area and beyond.” Click here to see more: Full Circle Fund
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Friend’s new book
April 24, 2009 by tom paper
This book recommendation, “Ten Degrees of Reckoning,” from Ann Phillips, friend of our family. When Ann refers, it is always worth listening!!! I will definitely be attending this reading on May 14th in San Francisco.
My friend, Hester Rumberg, has written a remarkable book –it’s about sailing, love, courage and remarkable resilience …
TEN DEGREES OF RECKONING
Hester will be speaking and reading from the book on May 14th. I do hope you will attend and FORWARD THIS TO YOUR FRIENDS, because it is an amazing, and beautifully written, true story. I can’t do it justice in this email, so please look at her web site:
“Ten Degrees of Reckoning: The True Story of a Family’s Love and the Will to Survive” by Hester Rumberg (Amy Einhorn/Putnam, $24.95). A Seattle author tells the story of Judith and Michael Sleavin who, while on a round-the-world sailboat voyage with their two children, were hit by a merchant ship off the coast of New Zealand. Only Judith survived.
Take a look at some of the readers’ reviews – it’s a book I couldn’t put down, and neither could the reviewers.
Reviews of the book have been enthusiastic. The Book of the Month Club has chosen Ten Degrees of Reckoning as nonfiction January 2009 main selection; the American Booksellers Association has chosen to include Ten Degrees of Reckoning in its Independent Booksellers Next list of “Great Reads from Booksellers You Trust” for March 2009.
Here are where the readings/signings will be held, and if you go, tell her Ann sends her love!
San Francisco, CA
May 14, 2009
Books, Inc in the Marina
2251 Chestnut Street
San Francisco, CA 94123
(415) 931-3633
7:30 p.m.
BEST CALL AHEAD TO CONFIRM TIME
Ann Phillips
arthurphillips.info
tendegreesofreckoning.com
www.ironrangejewishheritage.org
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March 7, 2009 by tom paperNationalize or Cannibalize?
February 23, 2009 by tom paperNationalization is generally not a good thing. Capitists and libertarians hate it.
Cannibalization is also generally not a good thing. People with a social conscience don’t particularly like the thought of eating our own.
However, it seems to me that in today’s world, we need to get a bit more comfortable with both words. Nationalization seems to be what is needed for our banks. Cannibalization is what seems to be needed for all the industrial companies that can’t make it. The bankruptcy system is here for a reason. It is a means for renewal of businesses that are not sustainable. Nationalizing industrials companies will lead to socialism and survival of the neediest. Letting industrial companies be “cannibalized,” or eaten up by various entities for their assets, is the only way that true renewal can be achieved.
Let me be clear: if we could let our banks go bankrupt without jeopardizing the global financial system, I would favor that outcome. Problem is that bank bankruptcies will have a catastrophic impact. Kind of like an ice age, imagine a global ice age for credit. Not good.
The two articles below from the New York Times are advocating weak banks being nationalized and weak industrial companies being cannabilized.
OPINION | February 23, 2009
Op-Ed Columnist: Banking on the Brink
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Why not just go ahead and nationalize? Remember, the longer we live with zombie banks, the harder it will be to end the economic crisis.
OPINION | February 22, 2009
Op-Ed Columnist: Start Up the Risk-Takers
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Precious public money should focus on investing in a new generation of innovative companies, not on bailing out the losers.
A Refreshing View of Capitalism
February 10, 2009 by tom paperHere’s a refreshing view of our world and capitalism forwarded to me by my good friend Jan:
What Life Asks of Us
January 28, 2009 by tom paperTerrific article by David Brooks in The New York Times about how we tend to think about what we ask of life, but the truth is that we are more about what life asks of us.
My wife teases me because she says that when she met me, I was very, very independent and believed that people made their way in the world independently. Today, I believe that people make their way in the world because of BOTH their efforts and the efforts of those around them, both those alive and those dead. We are still reaping the benefits today of the freedom that theWWII generation won with their lives. I fear that today few of us are willing to give our lives to protect our freedom. I’m not saying that we should run to every hot spot in the world and risk our lives. But I am saying that it doesn’t appear to be present in our minds today that we, the citizens of the United States, are likely to have to fight (and perhaps die) to protect our freedom in the future.
Good Karma
December 18, 2007 by tom paperMy thanks to Jim Wallace for this wonderful post at this wonderful time of the year. Life really is good. Cheers, Tom
Think Different
October 2, 2007 by tom paper
