Greetings: A belated bio from Bob
September 22nd, 2009 at 9:31
You might not hire me based on my resume. In a world increasingly favoring specialization I have repeatedly sought new challenges, leaving behind untied ends. At times I have taken leaps of faith and, like Indiana Jones in The Last Crusade, stepped off the ledge onto a propitious bridge. What I remember best is how much I have enjoyed life and still do. I have loved learning and consider myself, as must each of you, a lifelong (in my case 71 years and counting) learner, else we would not be taking this course.
In this nth iteration of myself I am beginning to do freelance writing in career education and core employment skills (combined with workshops for people in “transition”, the current euphemism for looking for a job). My dba and website (under construction) name is The White Schoolhouse, representing a historical (and mythical) place for learning. ”School” is not a place, however. Learning happens everywhere all the time and, to appropriate the overquoted philosophy of Forrest Gump’s mother: Opening the schoolhouse door is like reaching into a box of chocolates; “you never know what you’re going to get.”
I am licensed to practice law in Kentucky and Tennessee and keep my hand in health care and education law for a few clients. In past lives I have been among other things, a student, US Marine infantry officer, legal assistant to a Kentucky governor, associate in a large law firm, sole practitioner, health care executive and general counsel, chairman and legal counsel of a for-profit university system, Trustee and Vice Chairman of The Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels (yes, it’s a real organization, generous supporter of worthy causes). Love of language caused me to focus on legal documentation – plain English contracts, briefs, securities prospectuses, regulatory compliance policies, an occasional article. I have written creatively over the years, mostly for myself, although this year my novel A Jury of Peers made it to the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award semifinals. Yet to be edited for publication.
My wife, Alyssa, and I live quietly below the radar in Franklin, Tennessee, south of Nashville, with our not so docile wire hair fox terrier, Shiloh.