Lessons Our Parents Teach Last a Lifetime
What we learn from our parents, lasts a lifetime.
My dad has been dead for 12 years. Last Saturday would have been his 93rd birthday. My mom's birthday is Oct. 8, and would have been, well, I'm not sure. She was 39 when I was born and by some miracle was 39 when she died in 1995. I guess I never aged her. Well, that's definitely not true. She would have been 90 if she were alive today. Sixteen years ago Monday, she was passed away. I was lucky to have my dad for 39 years and my mom for 35 years. That's the math part of the column. One thing I didn't inherit from them was math skills. My sister got all that. I might not have learned math from them, but I learned a whole bunch more. I'm the beneficiary of Rocky and Sylvia Hardman's blueprint for life. These days, I'll be delivering words of…
