Resolution starting with the year 2017

  I plan on writing about my life experiences as stories some poignant and mostly funny for the sake of my children and grandchildren and also friends and their progenitors. I was trained as a mathematician under Professor V. Ramaswami who frowned on any loose writing, any assertion should be direct and to the point without any unnecessary decorations. I internalized this admonition so much that even in my conversations I keep it short and sweet, a result of which I am more a listener than talker. 

  Before we go any further please do not expect any linear order among these anecdotes. I shall relate them as I remember them.