Words of Worth

“Better than your day of birth…”

Imagine that Solomon were your substitute teacher for a day and he gave you this quiz:

True or False

1. I like thinking about my birthday better than my dying day.
2. I like weddings better than funerals.
3. I like laughing better than crying.
4. I like compliments better than criticism.

If you answered “true” to any, or all of the questions, you would have done poorly in class that day because…

My Dad

My Dad is celebrating his 90^th birthday today, Sunday, May 24, 2015.

I met him when he was just 31 years old and he punched the doctor who delivered me because he was so happy to have a daughter. But my first real memory of him was when he was 33 years old and I was 2 years old.  He was waiting at the train station in Pennsylvania for my Mom, my brothers and me to return from visiting my grandmother in Florida.  When the train came to a…