

My Birthday Blog!
I turn 60 this week. (I know I don’t look a day over 59 but it’s true.) It’s been quite a ride, an epic journey, as it were. Maybe not worthy of Homeric elegy but pretty great if I do say so myself. The stickers on my well-worn suitcase testify to the wanderlust that has marked my adult life. I have sailed Lake Superior, cruised Lake Victoria, canoed on the Amazon and dangled my toes in the Colorado River. I have driven onto a train that took my friend and I through the chunn