ANECDOTES FROM A LONG LIFEThese stories are meant to amuse my readers, to tell of adventures I was grateful (and sometimes ungrateful) to have had as a geologist, a CEO, friend and family man. Over the almost 87 year span of my life so far, many major changes have taken place in social issues, economics, international issues, and other factors that affect human lives. Such changes as the fourfold increase in world population; China becoming the worlds second largest economy;