Tag: Dreams

Six Decades In

Old guys can still do fun things. American lieutenant, politician and 41st President of the United States, George H. W. Bush, was born on this day in 1924. He probably said that after one of his post-ninety-years-old skydiving jumps. I realize that I’ve started talking a good bit about retirement. It’s just that, I turn …

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Work Work Work

“Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple.” Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka in “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.” American actor, director, and screenwriter, Gene Wilder, was born on this day in 1933 (died 2016). Maybe I’ve overdone it on the butterscotch ripple. You’d think that by …

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