| Articles by Gene Myers |
181. The Mystery Train - Strike 3! Yer out!
June 04, 2010
About twenty years before my Dad passed from this life to whatever is next, I happened to be home for a weekly visit. As usual, Mom, Dad, and I started with a round of golf. I think of golf courses as very serene places; maybe a little slice of heaven. They're green and rolling with an attractive la...
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182. National Health Care Boogie
May 12, 2010
I was taught all through elementary school and high school that communism, and its first cousin socialism, were failed models. Such a system was said to kill one's incentive to excel by taking from those who produced and giving to lazy slackers--redistributing wealth. The detractors say the idea of ...
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183. Taken Prisoner in Iraq: Freedom!
May 11, 2010
This is the last article in the series of how I came to be captured in Baghdad while on a business trip. Seventy of us, mostly European and American, were taken from our office building to an abandoned airplane hangar. Whenever we moved from location to location, we were shackled and chained. Among ...
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184. Taken Prisoner in Iraq: An Unwise Detour
May 10, 2010
A continuation... During the last episode I described the experience of waking up in an airplane hangar as a prisoner of Saddam Hussein. This article provides the detail of how I ended up there in the first place. Last week seemed like an eternity ago. Ernie and I flew into Baghdad from Bolo...
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185. Taken Prisoner in Iraq: A Guest of Saddam Hussein
May 10, 2010
The article that follows is an excerpt from my book, "After Hours: Adventures of an International Businessman", Chapter 5, "Saddam's Guest". Although this Baghdad event happened almost two decades ago, I still think of it as a "current affair". See, Baghdad is still plenty dangerous, and probably mo...
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186. Adios Cabo San Lucas
May 02, 2010
I had remained on the beach all day nursing a hangover. By five o'clock, thanks to a morning run, off-and-on swimming and napping, and two hearty meals; I was ready and eager to go again. When George, Krego, and Berman returned from the sea they were in a festive mood. Krego landed a trophy-...
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187. Cabo San Lucas Blues
May 02, 2010
Yesterday the four of us, George, Berman, Krego, and me, went deep sea fishing in the Sea of Cortez for the entire day. The day was beautiful, but somewhat marred because none of us caught a blue or striped marlin, which was the objective of the trip in the first place--or at least that was the obje...
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188. Freeway Follies: Krego's Conversion
April 26, 2010
As previously described in two earlier installments of FREEWAY FOLLIES, Krego was a large, mid-50s, loud, opinionated man who never held back in expressing his opinion on any subject. I met him on a fishing trip as we traveled from Newport Beach to Cabo San Lucas with two others, Berman and George. ...
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189. Night Visitors
April 26, 2010
I had been homebound with a flu bug for three days. That night I felt a little better, but my temperature was still 102, and I was constantly filmed with greasy, funky, perspiration complete with matted hair and an unshaven face. A neighbor, an attractive, curvaceous young lady with a small poodle (...
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190. Freeway Follies: Berman's Revenge
April 26, 2010
This is the continuing story about four individuals on a sport fishing trip to Mexico. Last time you rode with Krego, Berman, George, and me from Newport Beach down the San Diego Freeway (I-405 and I-5) toward Tijuana. On that leg, Krego broke a mirror in Berman's car, and from a separate incident a...
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Author: Gene Myers
