About
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The mission of Calkins Publishing Company is to offer new and different perceptions of the things we take for granted. Our purpose is to introduce new insights on such subjects as art, science, philosophy, government and the human condition. It is not incidental that our publishing trade name is A Different Perception.
It is part of the human condition that everything we know is hostage to our assumptions about the nature of things. Some of our assumptions are explicit. We have the opportunity to assess their validity and correct them as needed. Others are implicit; they are buried deep in our subconscious where they tend to remain both unknown and unexamined. To open our minds and broaden our perspective, we occasionally need to excavate all of our assumptions and give them a good dose of sunlight and fresh air. It also wouldn't hurt to shake them up a bit with a good swift kick. Our goal is to provide points of view which will stimulate that excavation and reexamination. |
About the Author
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Richard O. Calkins worked in the telephone industry for more than 40 years in engineering and executive positions. Early in his career, he was a transmission engineer and later an Engineering Manager for network planning at Pacific Northwest Bell and its earlier parent company Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company. Following a move to GTE, he served in that company's Telephone Operations Headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut, where he held positions as Assistant Vice President for regulatory strategy and Assistant Vice President for product planning and pricing. During his telephone industry career, Mr. Calkins was listed in Who's Who of American Business Leaders Special Edition, the Platinum Edition of the Who's Who Registry, and the Who's Who Registry of Global Business Leaders. After retiring from GTE, he spent six years as Vice President for industry policy development at the United States Telephone Association in Washington, DC. Since 1996, he has been retired in Sammamish, Washington, where he pursues personal interests in art, philosophy and physics. |