I Love You One Thousand Houses

When I retired rich at age 55 I should have been more afraid. I was no longer a highly paid CEO in corporate America but I had no apprehension about climbing down.<br> I had plenty of money literally millions of dollars and figured I could easily handle my transition into an exciting fun-filled retirement. Las Vegas was calling and Palm Springs beckoned.<br> Then without warning I was pounded with a series of lethal storms that made my remarkable ascent in the business world look easy.<br>After college I had been unstoppable rapidly climbing up a businessman riding high on a fabulous serendipitous winning streak.<br> My life was also the proverbial story of rags to riches. I had to learn how to climb out of the box of poverty and low expectations into which I was born. In my youth I learned lessons that taught me how to cope survive and win in spite of vast adversarial forces I saw and felt but never fully comprehended.<br> When destructive personal losses swept through my post-retirement life the old lessons that had taken me to the top in business were useless.<br>I decided to revisit my entire life. I desperately needed to find the lessons I must have missed along the way.<p> It was a matter of life and death.<p> This memoir is the record of that amazing search.