When Ron and I first met I was 20 and he was 8. His father was a jack-of-all-trades at the college I was attending in California. Ron was a sports addict and I played on the basketball team so we got to know each other rather early on. Over the years we kept in touch…

Back in 1981 I spent a week in the Macedonia area just north of Greece. I first visited the palace of King Philip of ancient Macedonia. King Philip was the father of Alexander the Great. He rivaled the City of Athens for power in the days of the great philosophers of Greece around 400-300 BCE.…