Meaningless trivia

| September 6, 2008

The #1 song on the Billboard charts on the day I was born: Soldier Boy. Interesting. I was in the Army, as a matter of fact, though hardly a boy at the time. The week my brother was born: It’s My Party. Heh. When my sister was born: Wild Thing. No comment. Not that there’s […]

Not-so-fond farewells

| August 18, 2008

Someone, I think it was Mark Twain, once said that we ought to live our lives in such a way that we wouldn’t be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. Me, I’ll settle for never having my eventual obituary read like this one: Dolores had no hobbies, made no contribution to […]