After Navy service in World War II, I earned a BFA from the Phila. College of Art (now the Univ. of the Arts). I was then recalled to active duty in the Korean War. Following was a 40-year career in public relations, advertising, sales promotion, graphic design, including 20 years as manager of a major insurance company's creative division.

Since my retirement 18 years ago, my wonderful spouse and I have enjoyed great Arizona desert living. To keep in good physical health, I swim 40 daily laps in our community's Olympic-sized pool; and to enhance my frail mental health, I find it absolutely therapeutic to visit Las Vegas four or five times a year.

Before I started with Helium, I wrote a humor column for an online newsletter. Now I write and illustrate daily articles for http:\\www.travel55lus.com, a website for older world wanderers.

If you're at my advanced age or getting there and love to roam the world, check http:\\www.travel55lus.com every day for informative articles, Q&As, photos, videos and great on-the-go bargains offered by our advertisers.

My passion is ...

My family

I know too much about ...

How really stupid, self-destructive and murderous humans can be

My parents always told me ...

How the hell should I know? I was an orphan.

My childhood ambition ...

To become a great artist and starve to death after cutting off my ear

My favorite memory ...

The day WWII ended just as our ship was set for a suicidal invasion

Why I write ...

To keep my creaky brain oiled and running smoothly

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Historical novels, MGM musicals, Ella, Sousa, Sachmo and Sinatra

My first job ...

Car hop at a fast-food joint

My best moment ...

Three: when I met my wife and when I saw my kids enter the world

My inspiration ...

See above

Jobs & Careers > Career Path & Goals When to quit your job

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When to quit your job is determined by many factors. First, an example. In the mid-1960s, we were writers in the advertising department of a large pharmaceutical firm. In the next set of offices was a department that was an innovation for the time, a television remote production team. Their job was to set up TV equipment at hospitals and beam live TV to hotel ballrooms during medical meetings and conventions. This way, the delegates could watch actual surgeries in progress. One day, several company execs called a meeting in our department. With dramatically long faces, they announced that t...

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