Home » Articles posted by Bob Howitt (Page 16)
Author Archives: Bob Howitt
Fearless Forecasts
In 1992, I left a great job on Wall Street and, having raised a bunch of money, established a foundation to provide “educational assistance to financially disadvantaged young people.” My new must read became Education Week, whose typical subscriber probably has jaundiced views about my prior life. What is not in dispute in the world […]
A Political Platform
… as drawn up on the back of a New Jersey diner placemat in January of 2012. Enactment of a true DREAM Act Balanced federal budget on a rolling four-year basis Decisions on gay marriage and abortion legislation retained at the state level Removal of all American shooting troops currently stationed on foreign soil Implementation […]
Voices
In choosing a school, the prospective collegian often has multiple “helpful” people in his or her ear: mother, father, best friend, sibling, high school counselor, teacher, outside education advisor, and, of course, oneself. Assume the student’s final decision is among three colleges with different characteristics. One way to put together the inputs from different sources […]
Somebody
All my life I have wondered about “Somebody”. Is “Somebody” a man or a woman, or perhaps a mythical combination of both? Does “Somebody” rent their residence or own a house with a mortgage and a picket fence, 1.9 kids, and a dog? Did “Somebody” complete four years of university education or drop out after […]
One Goal
Everybody wants the ability in their job to earn enough money to meet basic needs, even if we tend to forget that truism in a country afflicted with both overall affluence and huge disparities in income: a roof over one’s head, some clothes (let’s not have a debate here about “needs” versus “wants”), and food […]
The Good People
An Inarticulate Request for Reflection This essay may be misunderstood and not totally well-received by some of the people I love. Maybe my negative view on so many things in contemporary society is overriding common sense— having family and friends is so precious how could one ever put them at risk. Why would anybody think […]
On the Third Day
No, we are not talking about an Easter song. Instead, the third day is that time in your family vacation when sometimes everyone is mad with each other, kids with kids, parents with parents, parents with kids–every combination possible. People fighting over the slightest annoyance, like a shovel in the sand–as if it was a […]
Addictions
Part of The Belated Collection of Bob Howitt Essays, brought together because of overwhelming demand from myself and hereby distributed through technological devices not even conceivable at my birth. Astute readers of his various posts will conclude the following, assuming that excessive consumption of distilled spirits has not destroyed their literary brain cells: The guy […]
An Explanation of Chasing
Person A in this case is myself, functioning as a funder, a quasi-counselor, and a consistent communicator. Person B is a student aspiring to higher education (in other situations, it could be an adult seeking assistance or the representative of an organization wanting help). From an extensive conversation between Person A and Person B, the […]
Camp Nou
Having been in attendance in 2014-15 at five FCB Barcelona matches at the famed facility of Camp Nou in Barcelona, it is time to pen a few observations, information already known to aficionados around the world and the two billion youngsters who right now are playing the world’s game: The field is huge, which cannot […]