I turned seventy this year. Turned is how my wife and granddaughter refer to birthdays. We turn. It’s a turning day. When you are young you are happy to celebrate birthdays because they come with presents, birthday cakes and a rousing song. As you get older, you’re happy to just have birthdays. They are a …
Category: Life Lessons
Buddy Trips
My wife, Ruth, and I were staying in Cathedral City, California (next to Palm Springs) for two months – January and February in 2012. We had rented a condo that sits on the 14th hole of Cathedral Canyon Country Club. One day, Ruth, my daughter in law, Kate, son, Mike, and I played golf at …
Opportunities
Well over 30 years ago, I visited one of my college friends, Mike, in California. We visited several places: Pebble Beach, explored Wine Country, tasted sushi for the first and last time, and visited a coffee house – Starbucks. Mike told me that Starbucks was a new franchise business opportunity. I said, “Who is going …
Ed
I met Ed a little over ten years ago. Our first meeting was not a happy one. We met in a funeral home where I came to pay my respects to a friend of mine whose mother had died. Ed is his dad. Ed was ninety years old when we met. He turns 100 today, …
Let Me Tell You A Story
I am a baby boomer who grew up in the suburbs of Detroit. My mother and father both came from large families, so I had several pairs of aunts and uncles. I knew both sets of grandparents and had them in my life for my early years. I am the oldest of three children. I …