The Power of Words

An old childhood friend recently sent me a message that made me think. Now mind you, I haven’t seen or talked to him in about 50 years, so we are talking about doing a deep dive in the way-back machine! But not too long ago, we became friends again on that magical time warp known as Facebook, which made the trip possible.

He reminded me of a time when my mother took all of us to a zoo, either Benson’s Animal Farm or Southwick’s Zoo since we eventually went to both. Our family had five kids, me...