Happy Birthday Hon!

I've got to admit--this is one of my favorite pictures ever. There's a couple of photos that I just love...the one with my kids sitting in front of our house when our youngest was about a year old. Then the same kids at the same spot a decade or so later. I love a picture of my daughter singing a solo in her first play when she's six, and I love the above picture. We were just pups back then.

My wife doesn't do social media nearly as much as I do. Truth be told, I'd like to do less of it, but the writer side of me sees it as a necessary evil sometimes. Chances are, if you read this blog post or any of my posts, it's because I link this blog on several social media platforms.

Since she doesn't utilize social media, she has not been inundated with birthday wishes. Of course, if she wished to be inundated with birthday wishes, she'd spend more time online. She'd advertise her birthday on Facebook and other places. So, I guess I'm doing that for her (and I hope it's okay...).

Back in 2013 I blogged about her birthday and I included several notable people who shared her birthday, several of which, have passed away in the past seven years. Here's that list again.

Elvis Presley (1935-1977)

Steven Hawking (1942-2018)

David Bowie (1947-2016)

R Kelly 53

Larry Storch 97

Bob Eubanks 82

Soupy Sales (1926-2009)

Charles Osgood 87

Garry Spence 91

Ron Moody 96

Jason Giambi 49

Graham Chapman (1941-1989)

Jose Ferrer (1912-1992)

Gaby Hoffmann 38

Harriet Sansom Harris 65

William Hartnell (1908-1975)

Happy birthday, sweetie! I hope it was a good one.

54 Years...

On May 11, 2017 an article written by Dan Mihalascu appeared on the DriveMag website. The title, It Took Porsche 54 Years to Build One Million 911 Sports Cars.

Fifty-Four years.

The article (you can click: HERE to read it, and the above picture is taken from the article...) highlights the accomplishment that took place on the day the article was published. The 911 has been an incredible success for the company. As of the published date, seventy percent of all 911s made were still on the road. And the iconic car accounts for more than half of the 30,000 Porsche race wins.

I wonder if the the Porsche decision makers thought the car would still be around a half century--plus four years--when they began making the car in 1963. Did they know they would make more than a million 911s? Did they know the car would come to symbolize the company for generations to come? Did they know that for me--and perhaps millions of other car enthusiasts around the world--that whenever we see a 911 driving past we pause and admire the simple beauty of the machine? 

Maybe they did. Maybe they did.

Fifty-four years ago today, a baby was born in Ogden, Utah to an unwed mother. She had agreed to put the child up for adoption and a few days later the baby was placed with a family and given their last name. That baby was me. As I think about the woman who chose to allow strangers to raise her child, I wonder what she thought would become of her newborn baby. Did she know her son would grow up in a loving family, never wanting for anything? Did she know he would be fortunate enough to have a family of his own with an incredible wife and four amazing children--her grandchildren?

Maybe she did. Maybe she did.

I'd like to think so.