I served my time in a prison of glass and steel, computers and screaming bodies frantic to ensnare copious profits from unsuspecting investors. The Stock Exchange paraded her wares across a global flesh market in undecipherable numbers and symbols created for a sophisticated but small band of auctioneers. September 11, 2001 granted me freedom, no longer a slave to the diaphanous dream of wealth and privilege. I live by the ocean, in harmony with dolphin and gull, sand and wind. My peace is interrupted only by the scalding memory of those events so close to me that I touched and felt and died a little that day.
My passion is ...
sports especially golf
I know too much about ...
Wall Street tactics
My parents always told me ...
Never journey alone
My childhood ambition ...
Covering sports for a major newspaper
My favorite memory ...
Finding my ancestral home in England
Why I write ...
to stifle my chatter
What I am reading/watching/listening to ...
Ray Charles, Peter Cinciotti, The Greatest Generation
My first job ...
Page at the Stock Exchange
My best moment ...
Corporate Award...Best of the Best 2000
My inspiration ...
The ambition and success of my father
Preamble of the Constitution of the United States of America “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” Clearly the most powerful document ever conceived and executed by man. Strict but malleable, incisive yet wondrous in its interpretation, the conscience of America was fashioned after the ...
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