Happy birthday

Today is Wendy’s birthday. We met when we were 20 and were both trying to get started in the world, working jobs that didn’t pay all that much. Wendy still lived at home and I was boarding with friends. To say we were living on a shoestring is not an exaggeration. We dated for 6…

47 years

In a couple of weeks it will be 47 years since I proposed to Wendy and asked her if she would spend the rest of her life with me. I will be 69 towards the end of this year, my Dad died just short of his 72 birthday as that “line in the sand” has…

A debt to others

What do you owe? I had a conflict with someone who should remain nameless many years ago, who protested strongly that they had made it themselves; the position, the money, and the house were all because they worked hard. And they felt that they owed no one for their success. The pride in themselves was…