In Chapter 8, My Brother, A Successful but Troubled Man, I give some details of my brother’s many accomplishments. This excerpt is just a small part of that detail. “My brother was an accomplished politician and had been deeply involved with politics since he was 14 years old after spending a summer going to political […]

This passage is from Chapter 8. “On Election Day, I was assigned to the polling place in that district to work as a poll watcher to help ensure that no election laws were violated and that the voting was taking place in an honest and proper manner. I did not see any overt misconduct, but […]

This passage is from Chapter 8, My Brother, A Successful But Troubled Man. “After completing my first year of law school in San Diego, I took a year off and moved to Boston where I lived and worked for a year. In 1973, I came back to Albany with my first wife to finish my […]

This passage is from Chapter 8. For a brief time I had moved my law office to our office building where my brother operated his business. This passage expresses my relief when that arrangement came to an end. “By 1993, we had sold the office building and my brother moved his business to space he […]

Chapter 8: My Brother, A Successful But Troubled Man continues with this description of my brother. See my Video. “My brother was five foot, eleven inches tall and although stout at 225 pounds he carried his weight well. He did not look sloppy, pudgy, or out of shape. He had strong muscular legs, large upper […]

This passage is from Chapter 8. “On the rare occasions that my brother and I spent any time together one-on-one, we would compare notes on our respective careers. My brother’s business, no matter how much he explained it to me, always seemed like a black hole of insurance that never made a whole lot of […]

This passage is from Chapter 8, My Brother, A Successful But Troubled Man. “With Paul, it always seemed to come down to the proposition that what was best was whatever was best for Paul. Soon after I came back to Albany to finish law school, my brother and I started a recycling business buying and […]

I open this Chapter with my description of what I considered to be the motivating force in my brother’s troubled life. “Perhaps, to make any sense of what was happening to my brother and the rest of us, I must explain who he was and how he came to this crisis. The driving force behind […]

This passage is also from Chapter 8 and describes another questionable decision of my brother during our road trip. “On another night, after we had dinner, my brother suggested that I stay in to rest in the room while he went out for a few drinks which I took as code for he wanted to […]

This passage is from Chapter 8 and gives an example of my brother’s hedonistic lifestyle. This happened during a road trip I took with him to Florida. “A few years before my mother died my brother invited me to take a road trip with him to Boca Raton, Florida since he needed to bring some […]