Before David Letterman had his late night show on NBC, and before Bill O'Reilly was bloviating on Fox News, I got to see Sexual Harrassment first hand.

I worked as a Security Supervisor at construction site in New Hampshire where a Nuclear Power Plant was being built. It was the largest… Read full post »

You're not getting any younger, I was telling myself a more than three years ago . I have a keen grasp of the obvious. I'm single again, a bittersweet moment to be sure. It's time to meet someone "compatible",  whatever the hell that means, I think.

Immediately I ruled out meeting som… Read full post »

About ten years ago I sat in my cube and wondered what was wrong with Susie. She was a good employee, conscientious, hard working, committed, and a good trainer. But lately she has been resistant, and withdrawn. She was refusing to complete work assignments that involved writing, and I couldn't under… Read full post »

Many of you have read about my past experiences as a private detective. In the early 80s I worked in industrial security at a construction project in New Hampshire where they were building as nuclear power plant.

One Sunday, in February of 1983 , I was reading the classifieds in… Read full post »

In the go-go 80s, there was Magnum, PI, Miami Vice, and Remington Steele. These shows had action, panache, flair, sex, fast cars, faster boats, and even faster women. Testosterone and estrogen flowed like the falls over the Niagra River. Oh, to be a PI in the 1980s. For two short years I… Read full post »

I have some good news and bad news. The good news is I get to keep my job after relocating to NYC less than 6 months ago. The bad news is I only had my 4 million dollar project cut by 85%. Fortunately, no jobs were lost by the cuts. I work for… Read full post »

All right let me just say it plainly and explicitly, I used to stare at women's breasts. All the time. Never needed to make eye contact, never tried. Then I had my consciousness raised by a woman in college who helped me look at women differently.

She was two years… Read full post »

It's been hard for me the last month or so since my wife and I are now together under one roof. I've had to face the reality that I couldn't go on being unfaithful to her.

This isn't easy for me to share, here. At first, when I became involved with… Read full post »

SEE UPDATE AT THE END OF THE POST 

While most OSers  have shared interesting details about themselves and their life experience, some of the more interesting aspects are kept from public view.

My open call to all of you who read are to participate in a fairly well known ice breaker for… Read full post »

I think the only two things that can keep me away from OS is either death or taxes. Fortunately there was no death involved. I spent the last two and half days working on my taxes.

Let me tell you it must've been a lot more fun to be doing… Read full post »

You might say I live a charmed life. I have a job in New York City, and I have an open position I need to fill. This has got to be an incredibly easy task. Like being the only male teen in an all girl high school and needing a date… Read full post »

There was a time in my life where my relationships with women were, just a bit rocky, to say the least. It was the mid 1980s, and my significant other and I were living together in New Hampshire. It was time to take a vacation. She wanted to go camping in… Read full post »

I wrote a post yesterday titled Dating at Mid-life, now that's a crisis. I decided to use technology to find a date. A date. Technology exceeded my expectations.

Since dating in the 21st century meant using technology, I needed to approach this in logical, thoughful, deliberative way. Wait a second,… Read full post »

I've been bemused by the negative reaction to the new business model rolled out by Open Salon. This is all about change. People hate change. In almost every organization, people resist change. We can look at OS's cover for the last few days, to see the White House press corps outrage that… Read full post »

This is going to be a rather dull post. There's not going to be any finger pointing, nor any shots at the left or the animus right. I'm going to stay on substance only, and that could mean this post is quite boring.

Fear of change

We live in a society… Read full post »

It's not easy being an only child. It's even worse when your mother hates you. 'Hate is such a strong word.' 'You mother can't hate you. She's your mother.' 'How can you say such a thing about your mother?' 'What's wrong with you?'

What's wrong with me? If I had a… Read full post »

Now that I got that Thursday Haiku monkey off my back, I can have more fruitful discussion with you. There are managers and there are leaders. Managers tell you what to do, leaders inspire you to do good things. The best example of the differences between a manager and a leader was… Read full post »

Let me say at the outset that both my wife and I consider ourselves very, very fortunate in the current economic crisis. I have a job in New York City and she has her own business which is doing ok in this slow economy. We know this could all change in… Read full post »

Part one:

http://open.salon.com/blog/oesheepdog/2009/03/09/dad_you_make_my_life_a_living_hell_part_one 

Part two:

http://open.salon.com/blog/oesheepdog/2009/03/09/dad_you_make_my_life_a_living_hell_part_two

Part three:

 http://open.salon.com/blog/oesheepdog/2009/03/10/dad_you_make_my_life_a… Read full post »

In case you missed part one:

 http://open.salon.com/blog/oesheepdog/2009/04/10/i_turned_down_the_cia_the_story_of_my_interviews_part_i

After my park bench interview in front of the Nashua, New Hampshire Public Library, I'd come to the conclusion that I shouldn't sit by the phone waiting for… Read full post »

My youngest daughter (then 16) just couldn't understand why I would watch black and white movies. "It's like the 21st century, Dad." Movies made in the 21st century have limited appeal to me.  I'm in the target demographic of 50 to death. I also think it's because the big blockbus… Read full post »

If you live aboard your sailboat in the winter and have to use the head, you use the one on shore, not the one on the boat. Even with the diesel heater, you feel the dampness. So I climb out of the sleeping bag, open the companionway and peer out at… Read full post »

I was enjoying the beginning of a holiday weekend as a REAL AMERICAN when Sarah Palin decided to flounce off the Alaskan tundra.

Why do people have to make such a big deal out of leaving? It happens here at OS quite often. Posts are written about it, commenters comment about it,… Read full post »

In the movie Groundhog Day, Bill Murray play an obnoxious TV weatherman, who replays the same day in his life over and over until he "gets it right."

If you woke up to Sonny and Cher singing "I got you Babe" and had to replay that day over agaian what day… Read full post »

Greetings and salutations,

I've noticed recently that you're fed up with paying taxes and hate our government. Our government doesn't do anything right, it should be drowned in a bathtub. Since we've been at war for the past 6 years, you'll excuse me for questioning your patriotism. Taxes pay the sal… Read full post »