Looking Back 50+ Year

Every year between Christmas and New Years you hear and read of a lot of "looking back on the past year". They cover who died, who did great things and who did bad things. This year I want to do something a little different. I want to look back at the last 50 plus years and the people who had affect on my life.

• My parents - They were poor, but they did the best they could. My dad had a work ethic of work even when your body did not feel like it. Mom always wanted the best morally and spiritually for my brother and I.
• Steve Hasting - Now dead, he showed me responsibility in a time when we were hitchhiking across the United States.
• Wally and Beverly Walrath - I saw in them Christian love when they had no reason when a skinny four-eyed kid walked up the hill to their goat ranch.
• L. S. Boardman - He encourage me to use E. F. Cussins, because I would get more respect from using my initials over my first name.
• Michael Silbaugh - How not to sell or run and business
• Chris Luck - How a business should be run
• Carlos Gurtezzes - A friend and co-worker
• Norma - I can love, I can love unselfishly
  

These are the 10 people who have had the biggest affect on me. Most are dead, so are still living. Their memories will always live in my mind.


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A Real Christmas

It is the season to be blinded by flashing lights of red, green, and yellow. The television hounds me with commercials saying that loved ones will be happy if I buy them their product. Which is by the way the perfect Christmas gift. My inbox is filled with colorful ads from suppliers all saying that I should sell their gadgets as great gift items.

I don't have the money to buy everything they want me to buy! What every happen to the true meaning of Christmas? What ever happen to the importance of family, and friends?

This past year has been one of roller coaster rides. We are ending the year better off than what we started. We got rid of some material goods that were just cluttering up our house. We are spending more time face to face as a family.

Yes, this is a good Christmas! We are rich in what matters most of all. I would not trade it for winning a million dollars in the lottery.

James Kim

In the past few days and man died in the mountains of Oregon in an attempt to find help for his family. They were stranded in the cold and rain. Food and fuel for the family were gone. Two small children and wife were facing a horrible death from freezing temptertures or starvation depending on what condition would overtake their bodies first.

I am writing about James Kim. A young geek who had passion on reporting techinlogy. Unlike so many of us, James was able to balance his professional career with his home life.

I remember, internship at Techtv, reporter at PC Magazine and Cnet.com. Then finally senior editor. I remember James Kim talking about pictures from the birth of his first child, to playing Ipod music to his daughter before she went to sleep.

This is one man I will miss for his techinolgical expertise and his devotion to his family, even at the end of his life.

For more about James Kim you can go to Cnet.com.


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