My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.

My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.

Keep everything in perspective if you wish to be happy. For example... Losing an arm is more an inconvenience than a catastrophe. Things could be a lot worse so why not be grateful they aren't and thereby happy rather than sad?

Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.

It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later.