I’m 40 years young(?!) today. Can hardly believe it. Life sure is a sneaky thing. It often seems to poke along, yet at the same time somehow flies by. How can I already be turning 40?! That means I’ve lived through the Earth traveling around the sun 40x!! Yikes!, I guess I’ve been around the solar block a few times!! Yet it seems like in the not-too-distant past, I was just a boy, riding my Big Wheel tricycle and playing tag with the neighborhood kids in front of the house I grew up in…or turning 14 and getting my moped license — what a sense of freedom that was!…or turning 18 and graduating high school and getting accepted to KSU…or dropping out of KSU a year later to attend a local community college to become a policeman…or dropping out of the community college to work full time for a home improvement company…or turning 19 and getting my motorcycle license…or turning 23 and going by myself on a big road trip around the U.S. — driving south to New Orleans, west to L.A., north to Seattle, and east back to Cleveland — in my little oil burning but faithful 5-speed Honda CRX hatchback with 140K miles…or turning 24 and meeting Julie — and quickly knowing that I wanted a life with her in it…turning 26 and getting married!…turning 29 and returning to KSU and completing my bachelors and masters teaching degrees…turning 29 and becoming the father of David; what a day that was!!…turning 30 and becoming a widower; what a day that was…turning 33 and starting to write my HISTG book, to find the love in grief…turning 38, building a website and releasing HISTG online — one of the most daring things I’ve ever done…turning 39 and starting my teaching career as a substitute teacher (Kindergarten – 5th grade); working with a class full of wide-eyed and energetic young ones can also be quite daring! lol…and incredibly fulfilling. And now add turning 40 to the list! So many memories. The ones above just scratch the surface. Life is quite an experience! Full of heartbreak and rejoicing…and everything in between. And I’m far from done. I’m still as curious and enthusiastic as ever, and am ready for more — so bring it on! Join me in a toast?…and raise a glass for all…in celebration of life, laughter, and love…and to today being the dawn of something spectacular! Cheers!!
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