A Life Lived Backwards: One Man's Life

A Life Lived Backwards: One Man's Life


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ROW HARD, NO EXCUSES
November 30, 2021

How could I know my life changed direction the day my longtime and esteemed legal assistant, Cathy Jenness, came into my office and asked for a week off. Sure, I said, adding, What for? Cathy said

Greg Spiers – The Best Boy Next Door
November 16, 2021

I think the title of this podcast could have been, Greg Spiers The Best Buy Next Door. Heres why. Some years ago I went to Best Buy for expert advice on an item I was considering. Greg was the sa

Baseball and America’s Survival
November 09, 2021

On this podcast you will hear how a theatrical event that started out lightheartedly surprisingly turned into something deadly serious, became an adventure, and brought me a bunch of new and talented

Why I Wrote a Memoir
November 02, 2021

I never know exactly what will be discussed before any given podcast unfolds. That is because Jordan Rich poses the questions, and I answer spontaneously. Part Two of my memoir is entitled, Why I wro

Acting and the Human Condition
October 26, 2021

Naturally, Shakespeare got it right. Everybody is an actor. He expounded that notion in his original and poetic way in lines familiar to all of us in his play, As You Like It, Here are a few of them

Thespians, Billy Crystal, and a Gravedigger
October 23, 2021

Can you make an actor out if a guy who flubbed his one line in a college production of the Bards, A Midsummer Nights Dream, and who was far more interested in the sweaty but sparkling young dancer

Boston College Law School, a Happy Mix of Irishmen and Jewish Men
October 19, 2021

So how would a Jewish boy do at a Catholic law school? One of the great experience of my life, thats how, and still ongoing today, sixty-five years later! On day one a lifelong friendship was struck

Columbia Law School, the Ambassador and the Dummy
October 16, 2021

How could Columbia Law School, one of the most prestigious law schools in the country have admitted a dummy like me? You really have to be dumb to take a train from Times Square to the middle of Harle

University of Massachusetts Buddies are Game Changers Too
October 12, 2021

Being away from home at seventeen for the first time is really the start of your adult life. My dorm roommate that first year was George Delaney, who at twenty two had already seen the world in the Me

High School Teachers are Game Changers 
October 07, 2021

If youre lucky the teachers you have in grammar and high school will not only ground you in their subject, but teach you something about life. My Principal at Devotion School, the iconic Charles Tayl