Ecuador is on a charm offensive right now. They send out videos of happy and content US citizens who have retired to a small city in Ecuador.

On Memorial Day I want to talk about my father, Vasco L. Walters. He joined the Texas Army National Guard in 1936.

After starting work at four in the morning, I took some time off to go and see Star Trek Into Darkness.

Yesterday the sun came out and it was a beautiful afternoon. After all of my hard work, I was glad to have a chance to rest with the dogs as I relaxed on the hammock.

I have gone through some 10,000 years of human history all over the world.

The trip was incredible and the wonderful rest that I needed.

Elena and I spent Sunday afternoon in San Francisco with our dear friend from Chile Pablo Gallyas and his brother.

The Financial Times of London turns 125 and it has survived numerous depressions and financial collapses.

Mercer is no apologist for the apartheid system, which she calls “reprehensible” and “contemptible,” but she clears up some misconceptions about it.

Luah was kind enough to bring us back two very nice coffee mugs from Disneyland.

For almost 13 years Elena and I have been fortunate to count Mandy Findlater as a close friend. Mandy has an incredible story.

I am a man who has known many defeats in life. What are my victories-staying alive this long and finding Elena.

Yesterday I got an incredible nice surprise on Netflix. I found a German Science Fiction film called Iron Sky.

I got a very official-looking email telling me that my American Express card had been frozen due to a security issue.

Yesterday was a beautiful day and it was really great to see the president and vice-president sworn in.

My dear friends it was back to my dentist, Dr. Choi's office for more dental work yesterday afternoon.

I took the dogs out this morning and it's freezing cold.

Copernicus as the old saying goes: "I was born at night but not last night."

Dear Langley: When I was growing up in the 1950's there was a show on television called Alcoa Theatre.

When we were children, Christmas eve was spent at home with our mother and father.

Everyone Copernicus came home after a two-hour surgery to remove a small growth on his head.

I am still suffering grief over the loss of Cassi This morning before I went into the pool, I ran into an old friend.

Poor Copernicus is deeply traumatized over the loss of Cassi. He escaped in the rain this morning.

It's such a beautiful day that it feels like a late spring day in South Africa or Australia.

Elena, Luah and I were just most privileged to have Monty Heying share our Thanksgiving dinner.

My friends I always tell you that what one remembers most is the little kind things that people do for you in life when you are "down on your luck.

Yesterday was a beautiful day. I had Franmore Electric come out and do some electrical work on the house.

Now life comes back to normal after all of the drama of the election. I was at home solving routine and mundane problems.

What a beautiful day! Elena took the dogs for a long walk.

Today is a day that we call Halloween. My mind goes back 52 years to the time when I was a 6th grade student at Louisa May Alcott Elementary School.

This morning I am going to predict the outcome of the presidential election.

Yesterday was a day of very hard work. I started the day early working with my daughter in Sao Paulo on career strategy and graduate school of business.

I took a tour of the John F. Kennedy presidential library. It was an awesome and a positive experience.

Former US president Herbert Hoover famously said "Let the market take care of things." We all know what happened next.

All of these networks or channels had incredible courage. They would always "tell it like it is" even if someone got offended. Their "made for TV" movies were always incredible.

I attended a fascinating program last night at the Westin Saint Francis Hotel in San Francisco. Former Secretary of State George Schultz spoke.

I am going to add Whole Foods Markets to my list of great companies that I know well.

Elena and I had an incredible Saturday. We first went to the Oakland Convention Centre for her employer's annual share holder's meeting.

How could President Obama see his lead in the election polls grow when things are going so bad.

From my father I learned to be a student of history. I have studied the great depression. We have been living through a mini Great Depression 2.

Iran is the maker of the finest concrete in the word so the warheads would have to be designed to penetrate deeply before detonating.

I survived my dental surgery. Dr. Choi brought in an excellent dental surgeon who worked on me 2.5 hours.

It all slowly comes together. Most important in life is sharing love and leaving things better than when you found them.

The whole world watches with fascination as Julian Asdsange takes shelter in the Embassy of Ecuador in London. How this diplomatic or legal move plays out remains to be seen.

Today Elena and I celebrate 12 years together. On August 1 2000 we both were suffering a broken heart because of former loves that did not work out.

I am stuck in the house for the morning taking deliveries and handling a new cell phone for a friend of mine.

I voted for you in 1994 in the first democratic election in South Africa.

David Plouffe and the Obama team have taken some pages out of Carl Rove's play book.

Yesterday I took one hour to watch the HBO documentary Hard Times/Lost In Long Island. This show looked at four families that were affected by the high unemployment.

Natalie Wood is one of my most beloved actors of all time. She was not only beautiful but also had a brilliant mind and incredible talent.

There is an old saying that sort of goes like this: "Nothing is as easy as it looks at first. Projects will always take longer, be harder, and cost more money that you first imagined."

I'm delighted to see that Britain's Special Fraud Office has opened an investigation into Barclay's Bank and the fraud with the LIBOR rate fixing scandal.

I read an amazing article in The Atlantic Magazine yesterday. Auto engineers have made quantum improvements in engines, transmission, electronics, etc.

Only two family members were ever wounded in time of war-Uncle BJ and I. We both served in the US Navy.

Elena Leaves Her San Francisco Office.

I love it when a good prediction of mine comes true, because I placed all of my faith in Chief Justice Roberts and he "came through."

Crisis Investing is a brilliant book that explains in simple language what is going on now and what we need to do to survive in this dangerous environment.

Bill has been a friend of mine since 1965. We were in high school together. Bill was blessed with a loving family that wanted to see their only child cared for in life.

I just spent quite a bit of time dissecting the Reuters report on the deposition given by former MTN executive Chris Kelowan.

If a South African company was working to make a deal the local South African embassy would be there at every level helping out.

Last night I had a long and interesting dream about Rio de Janeiro. I was at San Francisco International Airport in a long line trying to board a plane to Rio de Janeiro....

In 1987 I found myself “down on my luck” in Houston. By the good luck of having a friend working at a particular law firm, I got a job there as a paralegal assistant.

Picassa crashed on both my computer and Elena's main computer.

50 years ago today three men made a brilliant and daring escape from Alcatraz. I went out to the prison and looked at all of the details.

Even 40 years after Watergate Richard M. Nixon is still a part of the American and world psyche.

My take on Nixon was that he was a brilliant and misunderstood man who had the potential to do so much good for this country and the world.

Many of you are living in houses that once were worth a lot of money and made you look rich. Now the source of your wealth has dropped as much as 50%.

When we started to do normal cooking smoke detectors would go off on the slightest provocation.

Perhaps a lot of you readers do not know that I am the author of a 700+ page book on white collar crime. Prosecutors and law enforcement officers who read it get a big laugh out of it and love it.

I had the chance to buy some Facebook shares yesterday on the IPO. I declined to do so.

My dear readers I opened up Yahoo early Friday morning and read a banner headline saying that one could still retire to a paradise for around $1,200 US per month

The lady Lucy Robertson had two suitcases full of crack cocaine. Here in the US she would get life for such a drug possession.

I watched an episode of Locked Up Abroad. It was about a British woman caught in Buenos Aires with a suitcase full of cocaine.

Last night Elena and I went to the gym to renew her gym membership. After going through the long and complicated process, we got a surprise.

I followed the lead of my beloved author Wilbur Smith. I had a shot of whiskey late int he afternoon and a couple of glasses of wine with dinner almost every day.

Robert Downey, Jr has played Sherlock Holmes in two movies. He is a talented actor. I deeply admire him for coming back from an awful problem with drug addiction.

The old way of getting computer software and systems problems fixed was to take the computer to a technician or have the technician come to the house.