Author Archives: Silver Stories

All 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and 25 different countries.  That’s a lot of traveling! I guess my early life dictated my wanderlust; I went to 5 different elementary schools in 8 years, so the foundation for travel was laid early in my life. I was a sailor, a soldier and aContinue reading “Vince”

This is a story about how GG and I met. GG had a blind date with my freshman roommate who I could not stand.  She went down to UVA for the date and within five minutes they couldn’t stand each other.  When she came back to school she told me how horrible her date was.Continue reading “Susie”

When I finished graduate school in 1976, I joined the investment banking firm Goldman Sachs in New York.  I spoke only English and had not traveled abroad, so it was an enigma to me why I was assigned to the International department. However, I saw this as an opportunity to be part of a veryContinue reading “Edward Goldstein”

August 9, 2121 When I was born our country was in the last 4 years of the great depression.  My family suffered in those depressed times but due to hard work and planning by my parents I feel we were better off than many.  We always had our own home, we had to rent aContinue reading “Anonymous”

This is a story about the importance of an education and the persistence to realize that goal. As an example I’ll relate the experiences of two people I still admire.The first was a man who immigrated to this country with his family as a young boy in the early 1900’s. His father was a coalContinue reading “Jaye”

Psalm 46:1-3 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 Arriving home from my class at Georgia State on November 11, 1987, my daughter told me I had had a call from her paternal grandmother and I should call her back right away.  The news:  My father, who had lived in Mexico in his camper off and on since IContinue reading “Dottie”

I was born in 1950 in Miami, Oklahoma. We lived in a little cracker box of a house (to which my dad later added a family room) but my sister and I didn’t know it was small – it was just our home. We would stand on the furnace grate in the winter to getContinue reading “Cheri”

Upon graduation from Brown University in 1967, a politically centered institution at the time, I went to work for Enjay Chemical Company.  Enjay was a division of Standard Oil of New Jersey and now ExxonMobil.  Working for Enjay was a good decision.  Stable organization, smart people and growing opportunities as the chemical business was newContinue reading “Tom”