Optimist123

I'm a married, bridge-playing empty-nest baby-boomer, and a semi-retired ex-Fortune 50 executive, who enjoys most of all a good laugh with friends or family.

Emerson wrote this a long time ago; it's not yet my biography, but it's a good description of my goal:

"To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!"

Lastly: Benjamin Franklin helped me decide to start this weblog. Below is what he wrote in Poor Richard's Almanac; it's good advice, so I took it.

"If you would not be forgotten,
As soon as you are dead and rotten,
Either write things worth reading,
Or do things worth writing."