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Karl Moskowitz 138 MAKAWELI STREET HONOLULU, HI 96825 18083967010 karl.moskowitz+numbahana.com To use the above email address, replace the "+" with an at sign, (@),. This is done so robots will not pick up the address to use for spam. |
Posted 4/27/16 Christine and I met when I attended a summer Japanese language course at U. Wisconsin - Madison in 1968. We married in Bloomington, Indiana on February 14, 1970. No children. After I graduated from IU in 1970, we moved to Cambridge, MA, where I received an A.M. and Ph.D from Harvard University (1979.) While preparing my dissertation we lived in Korea and Japan for several years. I had a rather eventful academic career at Harvard, but then got bored and incorporated my consulting company in 1984 and took it fulltime in 1985. (details of my subsequent business career trajectory in the "founder profile" on my website at http://www.ksaltd.com/sub04.html ) Christine returned to school and finished her B.A. in operations research at the Boston campus of the Univ. of Massachusetts, also in 1979. She joined a software company and worked in the tiny field of money-center bank wire transfer software until retiring in 2011. We moved our U.S. home from Boston to Honolulu in 1999, after which Christine telecommuted on Boston time, rising at 3am, walking downstairs and turning on her computer and VPN and then finishing for the day at 1pm. Although I am "working slow" these days, I am not retired and probably will not be for some time. I enjoy my work and am rather extroverted and like to keep in contact with friends and clients and, after all, its my own business and my services are the asset and the product; nothing to sell to an acquirer. The big change was that when Christine retired in 2011 I radically reduced my Korea overhead and now spend most of the year working at home in Honolulu or traveling with Christine. I work in Korea a few months of the year -- in the spring and autumn when the weather is good. In Korea I now stay in Yangpyung, a quiet summer resort town about 50 kilometers east of Seoul on the Han River (bigger than the Wabash), with good train service into Seoul. About living in Hawaii: We were extremely fortunate (lucky!!) in the timing of our move to Honolulu in 1999. Due to the bursting of the Japan asset bubble at the end of 1980s, at the time we moved the areas in which we were interested offered more choices than usual. Very fortunately (lucky!!), Christine found our dream house within one week of our arrival from Boston. We doubt if we could conjure up the same good fortune and luck today. We live at the eastern tip of Oahu. On the other side of the ridge on which our house is situated is Hanauma Bay, which is a beach park famous for coral reef snorkeling. We are well above the tsunami line and the likely global warming ocean rise lines; from our upper lanai we can look out to the ocean and Diamond Head and we can look to the mountains of the Ko'olau Range and we can also look down in the near distance to our local shopping/restaurant/Costco/marina complex. We do not surf or dive, but we get in a fair amount of swimming and I ride my bicycle for exercise daily. Look forward to seeing everyone June 24~25. |