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The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring background music. 'Anchors aweigh!' Five, four, three, two, one... and we had ignition!
I lost my mother, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and we had to relocate my dad after 58 years in the family home. That was tough.
Nell Carter, Actress (1948) |
Roald Dahl, Novelist (1916) |
Lincoln Davis, Politician (1943) |
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach, Novelist (1830) |
Oliver Evans, Inventor (1755) |
Julius Charles Hare, Clergyman (1795) |
Robert Indiana, Artist (1928) |
Goran Ivanisevic, Athlete (1971) |
Bill Janklow, Politician (1939) |
Maurice Jarre, Composer (1924) |
Samuel Alexander, Philosopher (1938) |