• Frank VersagiNeighbor

  • Royal Oak, MI

Successfully self-employed for 25 years, I have long defined retirement as that time in life when one does almost nothing one does not want to do -- either for money or as a volunteer. Based on that definition, I have been retired for 25 years.

For a couple of years, ended in 1998, Versagi Consulting published an occasional newsletter which dealt with civic and business concerns of Royal Oak. That earlier version ofVoice served three purposes: (1) promoted Versagi Consulting's services as wife/partner Muriel and I completed the process of replacing international and national clients with local ones; (2) offered the community a forum for the exchange of information and opinion not readily available elsewhere; (3) provided me -- a former business journalist and editor -- with an outlet for my writing.

Then, after Muriel and I redefined retirement to mean less paid work and more volunteer activity, I discontinuedVoice. Since then, former readers have kindly told us they miss the publication. Very recently, the combination of such comments and my involvement in Royal Oak's public dialogue about historic districts and the availability of the Internet has nudged me into publishing an electronic version of Voice, of which this is the first issue.

Voice will reflect my editorial bias, of course, but the electronic format permits me to offer opposing views a place to be expressed in a wide-ranging and timely exchange of information and opinion.

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