Monday, January 26, 2015

January 27, 2015: My 70th Year Begins


January 27th marks the last birthday of my 60s and the beginning of my 70th year. Yes, on January 27, 2016, I will celebrate my 70th birthday. And I do intend to celebrate it. Getting older certainly beats the alternative.

While I was the Manager of the Bertram Woods Library, a branch of the Shaker Heights Public Library, one of our senior regulars would stop at the reference desk to say hello. I would ask how he was. His reply, “I’m great! I woke up on the right side of the grass this morning.” Even though we had this conversations hundreds of times, I would always laugh. 

I plan to keep laughing.

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