Thanks for the Gift of Life, Mom and Dad

I pray that I have used it well

Me with my parents, circa 1962

Today I turned sixty. To put things in perspective, the current life expectancy in the United States as of this writing is just shy of seventy-nine years old. Curiously, for some reason, in Kansas, where I live, it is a few months shorter than average but I don’t plan on moving just to improve my odds of living longer. Additionally, my health…