REMEMBERING TOMIE on January 16, 2023

It’s Ethel Merman’s birthday today!

Tomie loved to sing along with Ethel when she was singing on Sirius/XM. In fact, if Ethel was singing on Sirius/XM and Tomie wasn’t singing, I knew he wasn’t feeling well. No need to check his temperature. Off to the Emergency Room we’d go.

He had begun to forget the words to some of Ethel’s songs, so for his last birthday, I gave him booklets of lyrics to Ethel’s songs: one for the car, one for the barn kitchen, one for his TV chair, etc.

But, apparently the lyr...