Fillmore Wood:  

Life I now live in Corona del Mar (Newport Beach) California with the woman (Sharon) I married in 1972 (one year after I graduated from Harvard Law School). Our plan is to remain here as long as we live. ***** After a 6-year stretch of being thoroughly over-worked at a large Wall Street law firm, I switched to being in-house counsel, first with Olin Corporation in Stamford CT, and later for 16 years with ARCO Petroleum in Southern California. I received a parachute pension from ARCO in 1995 as part of one of their periodic down-sizing reorganizations, and for a time considered myself to be semi-retired, working intermittently on projects for various large companies between taking breaks. Then, in 2001, BP (British Petroleum), the company that bought ARCO two years before, asked if I would be willing to return and I accepted the position of Vice President, managing their Western real estate legal services group. Then in 2006, I again was offered a retirement package (since BP does not willingly employ any executives over 60), which I gladly accepted. This time, I plan for my retirement to be permanent. Turning 60 was the first birthday that I’ve had in a long time that I really appreciated, since it tied into my permanent retirement and freedom at last to do as I chose with my days. ***** After 20 years in California, we have finally moved to a house that overlooks the ocean. We never had children because we were both too consumed with our careers and business travel (yuck!) and sports and sports travel (yeah!). I no longer do any running. Our principal sports now are long-distance bicycling and tennis. We have taken many long bicycling tours, including from Paris across the Pyrenees to Northwestern Spain, from Burgundy France across the Alps and Apennines to Venice Italy, and from Los Angeles to Texas. Our 25th anniversary gifts to each other were a pair of custom titanium touring bicycles. By contrast, our tennis skills were definitely always "...Expand for more