A friend I haven’t heard from in more than 20 years sent me a note on Facebook recently. After updating her on marriages, kids, jobs, I said “here are some other points in my life over the last 20 years.”
- Sober for 21 1/2 years.
- Much wider than I used to be. Gray in the beard. Too much cholesterol.
- Did I mention that I was going to be a grandfather?
- A buddy and I tried to make it as free-lance writers for a while. Didn’t work out.
- Can never retire thanks to crushing debt and a 401k now smaller than all but 4 molecules on the Periodic Table of Elements.
- My only brother died of cancer last summer. I really miss him. Yesterday was his birthday.
- Have had a few spiritual epiphanies over the last few decades. Consider myself a spiritual rather than a religious person.
- Got a chance to teach a college class a few years back. Wish I could do that full time.
- I make great pancakes.
- Wrote some humor columns for the local paper. A few were good. A few were ordinary. A few were brilliant.
- My “kid in the candy store” moments were covering three international Formula 1 races at Indianapolis.
- I’ve schooled my daughter on the Holy Trinity: the Marx Brothers, Monty Python and The Three Stooges. She’s a chip off the old block. My wife swears that in my previous life I was an old Jewish comedian named Shecky. I don’t disagree.
I’m comfortable with this epitaph.
1 Comment
January 31, 2009 at 11:05 pm
DaughterS. Dos. Duo.
Both of these daughterS have been schooled in said trinity, however, you can consider me more of the Deistic….I don’t believe in the Stooges, much as our founding fathers didn’t believe in miracles.
Also, I beat you at trivial pursuit on a politics question.
I just like to remind you of that fact every once in awhile.