Author Description

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts,..." As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII - by William Shakespeare. Come and relive the 50s, 60s, and 70s if you are over forty years old, or come and marvel at those wonderful decades if you are thirty-nine years old or younger. Journey through the "Schoolboy" age, the "Lover" age, the "Soldier" age, and the "Justice" age of the "Seven Ages of Man," played by an All-American male of Chinese heritage. Randall L. Got retells his life's story growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and coping with trials and tribulations of adolescence, pursuing a college education, seeking romance, coping with Army life during the Vietnam War, weathering his parents' disapproval of his interracial marriage, and building a successful thirty-three year career in accounting and finance as the Vice President of Finance for CHA Industries. Each role has fortuitously led him to inner peace, serenity, and enlightenment which will hopefully allow him to gracefully cope with the dreaded "Pantaloon" and "Second Childhood" ages when he is old enough, "sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything," to play those roles. Come into the amphitheatre and take a front row seat, and hopefully you will be entertained for many hours, but more importantly, you may learn how to improve your own performances as you "strut and fret your hour upon the stage, and then you will be heard no more."