It has been almost a year since my last post.  When I started writing my blog, I had hoped to write at least once a month.   I was going at this pace for a few years.   The last couple, however, I have slowed and it is hard for me to believe that my last post was August of 2017.   Over the past year I have thought about many topics.   The thought would come to me and as I would think about it, my mind would wander, I would lose focus, the phone rang or a bird flew by and “poof”  the thought was gone and I was on to something else.  Several topics I have been considering are just too controversial.  Whether it was about the protocols of hugging to political observations to frustrations with various main stream media stories.   I was going to write about how they upset me, but, that was not my intent when I started to write.  I want these to be insightful and positive, not negative or to create conflict.

I have not been just sitting around over the past year twiddling my thumbs.   I also have been standing and practicing whistling bird calls.  Actually I have stayed pretty busy.   My main activity was managing Reynolds Senior Village, a senior manufactured housing community.  In the early fall 2017, I realized that the best thing for my investors was to find a buyer for RSV.   This process took several months and in May 2018 I was successful in selling to Meritus Communities.

Since May, I have finished wrapping up the final transactions with the RSV sale, I have consulted with a couple small businesses with selling and I continue working with a few businesses on a monthly basis.   I have been re-appointed  to the Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation Board of Directors.  This was an appointed by Governor John Kasich from Ohio.  This is a 3 year term and I continue to be vice chair of the investment committee and on the governance committee.   I am finding great value with this position.   The complexity and enormity (the fund has almost $27 billion dollars to invest) feed right into what I enjoy.

Early July we spent a couple weeks up at the lake.   I have been out of college now 40 years, working with daily responsibilities throughout.   For the first time since college, I woke up without worrying about due dates, payroll, staff needs, client issues  or all those other things that would occupy my mind.   Let me tell you, it feels odd, strange and uncomfortable.  Even though I have now taken up pickleball, I am not a retiree or planning on being one!

I am taking my time, looking at opportunities and being patient with this pursuit.  I have been very fortunate with what have done, who I have worked with and it is important to me to find the right opportunity, not the right now one.

Every day is an adventure for me and I know the next one is surfacing as I write this.   I do know that I will be committed to start writing again.    That should keep me busy for at least an hour or two!