Today is my birthday and the ninetieth day of the year. Be sure to check out D. Chedwick Bryant's wonderful post on my life and my birthday.
I was born on March 31, 1950 in a large southern state with a lot of coastline. My father was a career military man and my mother a young, pretty girl from Chicago, who had run away from her tyrannical preacher father.
If the birthdays of the world's population are evenly distributed across the calendar, I share my birthday with nearly eighteen million other folks. Most, like me, toil in obscurity, but a few are names you might be familiar with.
Many famous dead people were born on this date. A couple of popes, Pius IV and Benedict XIV, the composer Franz Joseph Haydn, Henry Morgan of I've Got A Secret fame and Leo Buscaglia, who had the curious notion that we might be better off if we loved one another a bit more.
Today is the birthday of several prominent and still living politicians. Barney Frank and Patrick Leahy both celebrate today and both were born in 1940. Al Gore was born on this day in 1948. All are older than me, a fact I don't let them forget.
In the world of show biz, celebrants include Reah Pearlman, Richard Chamberlain, the alway quirky Christopher Walken, Shirley Jones and let's not forget Gabe Kaplan and musical legend, Herb Alpert, but not the Tijuana Brass.
Of all the millions and million of folks wise enough to be born on this day, my favorite is Cesar Chavez, who devoted his life to making the world a better place. I am all in favor of declaring our birthday a national holiday. We can call it Chavez/Sneed day, I don't mind second billing. Everyone will get the day off and we will have cake and a giant pinata filled with the best candies.
Merle.
Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong, sometimes just full of it, but always judgmental and cranky
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8 comments:
What a cute action pic.
Happy Birthday again. You seem to have omitted a person who not only shares your birthday, but who also shares your bubbly personality and nurturing, patient ways...actress Shirley Jones. Bonus: She is older than you.
Shirley Jones. She's the greatest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a27zbNyf3x4happie birfday
oops I meant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a27zbNyf3x4
happy birftay (bad proofreading skills)
Happy Chavez/Sneed Day Merle!!
I hope you have a great day, week, month, year, two years, thre.... aww shucks you know what I mean! :D
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday Merle!! and many many more!!
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