I Always Want the Best for You

I always want the best for you, even if what you want for yourself may not ultimately be the best for me.

Ellie was one of the best secretaries I ever had. She was the only one who knew how to use our IBM MT/ST (Magnetic Tape/Selectric Typewriter) which was a very early version of an electronic word processor. Her successors never got the hang of it. And neither did I. One Saturday morning I tried it out. My project was to “self-address” twelve envelopes for the U.S. Post Office so they wou...