When did you meet Mickey?
1976
Where did you meet him?
Pig Roast/coop
Memory of Mickey
Mickey was our computer mentor. He built his own pc when you couldn’t buy one affordably and he seemed to know everything about them. If it hadn’t been for Mickey and Sharon Carlsten Associates would never have entered the computer age. He suggested we get our first home computer, a compaq. I wrote a novel on that thing, taking it with me on a retreat at pine mountain to finish it. That would never have happened without him.
He also mentored our parenting. When we were stumped, we called Mickey for advice. When Broek, at 10, hated Girl Scout camp and begged for us to pick her up and bring her home, we called Mickey. He said, “Don’t rescue her.” So she stayed, the weather cleared and she rode horses and made friends.
I think he was that witty and wise counsel for so many people. He made himself available and was both patient and unfailingly kind.