When my oldest son told me that he intended to run the Daytona 100, a 100-mile ultramarathon in Florida from Jacksonville to Daytona, I thought he was nuts. A cluster of fatherly cautions popped to mind: What if you permanently damage your knees? Shouldn’t you get a doctor’s OK first? What if you drop dead?…
Lessons From a Lost Library Book
The other night, my family gathered around and pulled out one of my childhood favorites for a read-aloud night: Sydney Taylor’s “All-of-a-Kind Family.” Set in the early 20th century, each chapter of “All-of-a-Kind Family” tells of the simple yet entertaining life of five little Jewish girls living with their parents in New York. “I am…
Dear Next Generation: Tips From an 87-Year-Young Patriot on How to Make Life Better
On Aug. 15, I turned 87 years young. Yes, I have been incredibly blessed with good health, a wonderful wife of 50 years, four terrific and successful children, and four outstanding grandchildren—also all successful. I grew up in eastern Pennsylvania, spending summers with my maternal grandparents on a lake in Maine. I learned a primitive…
Sharing Lessons, Finding Faith: Mitch Albom
Mitch Albom has made a career of learning lessons and sharing them in books. His most famous work recounts lessons about resisting greed and selfishness through insights into human goodness shared by his favorite professor, Morris “Morrie” Schwartz, in the weeks before Schwartz died of ALS. The book, “Tuesdays With Morrie,” ranks among the best-selling…
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