By Paul Losch
About this blog: I was a "corporate brat" growing up and lived in different parts of the country, ending in Houston, Texas for high school. After attending college at UC Davis, and getting an MBA at Harvard, I embarked on a marketing career, mai...
(More)About this blog: I was a "corporate brat" growing up and lived in different parts of the country, ending in Houston, Texas for high school. After attending college at UC Davis, and getting an MBA at Harvard, I embarked on a marketing career, mainly in the Bay Area with different companies. My former wife went back to medical school after we had been married a few years, and we moved into married student housing at Stanford, had our two now adult children while she was a medical student, and moved into Palo Alto when she started her Residency. Been here ever since. As my kids were going through the Palo Alto schools, I was actively involved in their activities, most notably head umpire for Palo Alto Little League and 9 years as a member of the Parks and Recreation Commission, among other activities. My kids both are grown, my son teaches 5th grade locally, and my daughter, fluent in Mandarin, is working in China. I sold the business I owned and ran for 8 years in 2012, worked on the Obama campaign, and am consulting for non-profit organizations, which gives me a nice, flexible schedule. Lots of stamps in my passport, and for fun, I like live performances &emdash; theater and music - and of course the Giants!
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I can remember when I stayed home sick from school that my mother would always watch "As the World Turns," a daily soap opera, one of many back in the day.
I heard on NPR today that a soap opera that started on radio and gravitated to TV, is it Guiding Light? has been discontinued after a tenure that pre-dates me.
I spent a summer while in high school in Spain, and several of the girls in my group were into the soaps, and complained that they were missing out on the "drama" while they were not in the States. I did not get it, but that's OK. And it was when there were 3 networks, some time ago.
Since I am at work during the day, I really don't know what there is to watch these days, and I likely would not like my choices, methinks. The few times I have seen TV during the day, it is Jerry Springer and the like, and you can have it. The sad thing is that people who are able to watch TV during the day appear to get fed the likes of Jerry. That is scary.
Bring back the soap operas.
