Michael Ivers:  

Life When I left Monterey in the early stages of 1973, and trekked off to Cupertino. I thought my stay among the orchard lined streets would be short lived. The stay became anything other than short -- I live only three miles from that first apartment. The only thing that was short lived were the orchards. In the thirty plus years I have called the area home one marriage came and went, the second thrives and produced one child and, for me, a step child. There have been too many jobs at too many companies (most of which joined the long-gone orchards). Though I sufferd through a too long period of underemployment (that ended in 2005) that period of eking out a living taught me more than all of the years of working, and all of the hours of classroom learning. I found myself and my capabilities, and, more impo...Expand for more