Today is my big day, the day
I look forward to all year, the day where I am the center of attention in my
family, whether I want to be or not.
Today is my birthday.
I really can’t believe that I have hit the big 6-4, but I have, and I hit it today.
It doesn’t seem possible that I am that age, but I am.
I still am too young to collect Medicare, but here I am, 64 years of age, and I have to tell you, like James Brown once screeched, “I feel good!”
Sure, I have the usual aches and pains related to age, but honestly, I feel great! Knock on wood, as they say.
I really cannot complain, and what a difference a year makes.
Last year at this time, I celebrated my birthday under such a dark cloud, that of complete and total uncertainty about my job status and my future.
We were just settling in, if that is what you want to call it, into our pandemic life, and things were so up in the air that while I celebrated a birthday last year, it really was almost a “smoke and mirrors" birthday, because I—and we as a culture—was in such a sad state that how could one fully celebrate such an occasion?
We are still in a pandemic, but things are looking up. I am fully retired, or semi-retired if that is what you want to call it, but maybe this pandemic is running its course, and maybe things are looking up.
Heck, maybe it isn’t a pandemic at all, but that is another story for another time.
Today is my birthday, and that is most important to me today.
April 28 is a great day, and I share my birthday with a number of others, some who have become celebrated, others who are infamous, to day the least.
I looked up some famous people who share my birthday—not my year of birth—and I came up with a very interesting list.
Here are some other people you might know who also have their birthday on April 28:
Harper Lee (1926), the reclusive writer, whose best known work is “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
Carolyn Jones (1930), movie and TV actress who played Morticia on “The Addams Family” TV show.
Pedro Ramos (1935), the Cuban baseball player, who played for numerous teams during his career, including the New York Yankees. (He was the only baseball player at the time who had his birthday on that day—or at least the only one I knew about, so I became an immediate fan of his.)
Saddam Hussein (1937), the infamous Iraqi general who ruled with an iron hand and whose regime was responsible for thousands of deaths of his own people.
Ann-Margret (1941), actress, singer, dancer, and all-around star, certainly one of the world’s most beautiful women, and one of my first crushes although I didn’t know it (see “Bye Bye Birdie").
Jay Leno (1950), comedian, actor and former host of “The Tonight Show.”
Elena Kagan (1960), lawyer and justice of the Supreme Court.
Barry Larkin (1964), one of the top baseball players of his time with the Cincinnati Reds and a Hall of Famer.
Bridget Moynahan (1971), beautiful actress who is one of the stars of the long-running TV show “Blue Bloods.”
There are others, but these people come to mind, so I guess you can say that I am in good company in sharing my birthday with some very interesting people, both good and bad.
My family and I ordered in from a restaurant this weekend, so I had my birthday meal a few days earlier. It was just too difficult to have it on the actual day, so Saturday was easier for all of us.
I will have a cake later today, and I will blow out my candle(s), and I will make my birthday wish.
I will get some gifts, and I will really appreciate them.
And I will thank everyone for wishing me “happy birthday.”
“When I’m 64” … well, that time is now, and like I said before—
“I FEEL GOOD!”
Today is my birthday.
I really can’t believe that I have hit the big 6-4, but I have, and I hit it today.
It doesn’t seem possible that I am that age, but I am.
I still am too young to collect Medicare, but here I am, 64 years of age, and I have to tell you, like James Brown once screeched, “I feel good!”
Sure, I have the usual aches and pains related to age, but honestly, I feel great! Knock on wood, as they say.
I really cannot complain, and what a difference a year makes.
Last year at this time, I celebrated my birthday under such a dark cloud, that of complete and total uncertainty about my job status and my future.
We were just settling in, if that is what you want to call it, into our pandemic life, and things were so up in the air that while I celebrated a birthday last year, it really was almost a “smoke and mirrors" birthday, because I—and we as a culture—was in such a sad state that how could one fully celebrate such an occasion?
We are still in a pandemic, but things are looking up. I am fully retired, or semi-retired if that is what you want to call it, but maybe this pandemic is running its course, and maybe things are looking up.
Heck, maybe it isn’t a pandemic at all, but that is another story for another time.
Today is my birthday, and that is most important to me today.
April 28 is a great day, and I share my birthday with a number of others, some who have become celebrated, others who are infamous, to day the least.
I looked up some famous people who share my birthday—not my year of birth—and I came up with a very interesting list.
Here are some other people you might know who also have their birthday on April 28:
Harper Lee (1926), the reclusive writer, whose best known work is “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
Carolyn Jones (1930), movie and TV actress who played Morticia on “The Addams Family” TV show.
Pedro Ramos (1935), the Cuban baseball player, who played for numerous teams during his career, including the New York Yankees. (He was the only baseball player at the time who had his birthday on that day—or at least the only one I knew about, so I became an immediate fan of his.)
Saddam Hussein (1937), the infamous Iraqi general who ruled with an iron hand and whose regime was responsible for thousands of deaths of his own people.
Ann-Margret (1941), actress, singer, dancer, and all-around star, certainly one of the world’s most beautiful women, and one of my first crushes although I didn’t know it (see “Bye Bye Birdie").
Jay Leno (1950), comedian, actor and former host of “The Tonight Show.”
Elena Kagan (1960), lawyer and justice of the Supreme Court.
Barry Larkin (1964), one of the top baseball players of his time with the Cincinnati Reds and a Hall of Famer.
Bridget Moynahan (1971), beautiful actress who is one of the stars of the long-running TV show “Blue Bloods.”
There are others, but these people come to mind, so I guess you can say that I am in good company in sharing my birthday with some very interesting people, both good and bad.
My family and I ordered in from a restaurant this weekend, so I had my birthday meal a few days earlier. It was just too difficult to have it on the actual day, so Saturday was easier for all of us.
I will have a cake later today, and I will blow out my candle(s), and I will make my birthday wish.
I will get some gifts, and I will really appreciate them.
And I will thank everyone for wishing me “happy birthday.”
“When I’m 64” … well, that time is now, and like I said before—
“I FEEL GOOD!”
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