Thirty nine years have gone by Since I bade you goodbye But memories of you linger strong Though our time together did not last long.   With you I spent two and a quarter years That left an indelible memory I hold so dear You instilled in me a desire to learn And that respect is something I need to ...

Like Regina Brett in her book “God Never Blinks”, I sometimes felt that at the moment I was born, God must have blinked and thus missed the occasion, unaware of my birth at all. I felt like the poet who wrote that he was born on a day God called in sick. Shortly after my birth almost 55 years ago ...