Author: redpenguinweb

It was 2008 and I had been with The Bank of New York for 8 years. The bank was in the process of being acquired by Mellon Bank of Pittsburgh. For me, the transition of my position to Pittsburgh was almost over and I would then take my 6-month package and leave the bank. The …

It was midnight. The clouds were moving in covering the moonlight that reflected off the ebony water. In the distance I could see the tiny rows of lights outlining the office buildings of Stamford, which were getting smaller and smaller reminding me I was drifting further east of the shoreline that seemed so close a …

When the world looks cloudy and dark Remember, you are the light. With your smile, love, and kindness Go to your heart, bring out the light. When the world looks bright Take in the light for when it is dark. Remember, you are the light. It is the flow in which we grow, Breath in, …

After almost 30 years in the business process outsourcing business, I was told just days before my 15 year anniversary that my position was being eliminated. There were other times in my career that I thought it could be the case but not then… However, unbeknownst to me, the company was up for sale and overhead …

Shortly after graduating from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, I received a call from my favorite journalism professor. He presented me with an opportunity—I could interview with Computer Reseller News, originally launched in 1982 and published by CMP Media of Manhasset, New York. Growing up in Cherry Hill, NJ, I had never even set …

Dateline:  Late ‘80s – early ‘90s                    The heart of The Great White Way, BROADWAY! Scene:  Equity Headquarters (AKA the Theatrical Actors Union) It’s a bone-chilling morning that begs the predawn sunrise to get off its sorry BLEEP! and aid the approximately fifty aspiring, anxious, fidgety, slightly delirious from lack of sleep actor-hopefuls that already line …

It was October 2008. My boss called me into the office and told me that my department was being downsized and that I was, unfortunately, being let go. He was very sad and felt so terrible that I ended up comforting him! I was then called into an office down the hall where my HR …

An enclosure of time A sail to guide me on an ivy pass not emerged until one treads the ridge and builds the past Where the path is obscured on the screen of muzzled communications Impacting a common era observing a margin of history lured by my reflection As I lay inert when I travel …

You never know the last time you might speak to someone. Growing up, my mother always told me “Don’t ever end a conversation with fighting!” “Yeah, yeah, whatever mom,” I’d say sarcastically. “What did she know? She acts like she knows everything.” I was a very stubborn child. Looking back now I wish I had …

Back in the summer of 1992, an interesting event took place at an East End beach on Long Island, New York. Billy Joel and his wife, Christie Brinkley, the actress and model, gathered on an Amagansett Beach while several bay men demonstrated the outlawed haul seining for striped bass. Haul seining is a form of …