Happy birthday

Happy tomorrow birthday to my brother, 68 years of his own, and 3-1/2 years ahead of me. 

May your day be blessed.

Happy Birthday

Happy Fifth Birthday to my grandson!

102

On this day 102 years ago, Bob and Tisha Chapman opened their last little bundle of joy. The 10th of 10 children, with the family perhaps running low on names, she obtained only one given name -- and that allegedly attached to her by her oldest sibling. Playing with a ball on a porch listening to someone sing "Saviour, visit thy plantation" and picking cotton in the hot fields while singing "How tedious and tasteless the hours" must have been good times -- somewhere in there -- but time marched on. After ten years of education from the rural Oak Flat School and one at Nacogdoches High School, the party in question graduated in 1934. Then 1937 marked a major milestone, when she married her husband of 70 years to be. The next 20 years brought 5 children, a World War and the loss of a father and a child. Time moved swiftly on with marriages, in-laws, grandchildren and finally great-grandchildren -- and more deaths along the way. Mother. Brothers. Sisters, Friends. Daughter. And finally the husband of 70 years. That was nearly ten years ago, and time has relentlessly continued its forward march. "Don't know why God has left me here, but I'm still here," you can still say. You devoted your "career" to faith and family; you may not be rich in this world's goods, but we know "she with a heart full of love is richer than she with a hand full of gold."

Happy Birthday, Mother.

Happy Birthday, y'all

I don’t remember it, but I’m told I was born on the last day of the year sometime near the middle of the last century. In addition, I’ve found that God commonly added some important people to the world as he was filling his end of year quotas. Here are some of them:

Jacques Cartier, 1491

Andreas Vesalius, 1514

Emperor Go-Yōzei, 1571

Herman Boerhaave, 1668

Charles Lord Cornwallis, 1738

Henri Matisse, 1869

Elizabeth Arden, 1878

George C. Marshall Jr., 1880

Simon Wiesenthal, 1908

Pat Brady, 1914

Anthony Hopkins, 1937

John Denver, 1943

Bart Barber, 1969

Gabby Douglas, 1995

Happy 300th Birthday

The city of Nacogdoches, Texas describes itself as "the oldest town in Texas." Its earliest known history is as a village of the Nacogdoche tribe of Caddo Indians. In 1716  the Mission Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe de los Nacogdoches was constructed and opened as a mission to the local Caddo Indians.  July 9, 1716 Father Antonio Margil de Jesus took charge of the new mission. Because of this, Nacogdoches is celebrating July 9, 20l6 as its Tricentennial.

Happy Birthday, to my Mother

Today is my mother's 101st birthday. She was born this day in 1915. She graduated from Nacogdoches High School in 1934, and may be their oldest living alumni. She married in 1937 and was widowed in 2007. She has 5 children, three here and two on the other side.

Happy Birthday, Mother!

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to my "little girl"!

This day in history

This day in history (A.D. dates)

• 1199 - Richard I, the Lion-hearted, King of England (1189-99), dies at 41
• 1320 - The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath
• 1671 - French playwright and poet Jean-Baptiste Rousseau is born
• 1672 - France declares war on Netherlands
• 1808 - John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company
• 1830 - Joseph Smith and 5 others organize the Mormon church
• 1862 - The battle of Shiloh begins; Albert Sidney Johnston, U.S. Confederate general, dies in battle at 59
• 1868 - Mormon leader Brigham Young marries his 27th wife, which is his last marriage
• 1896 - U.S. President Benjamin Harrison marries Mary Scott at the St. Thomas Protestant Episcopal Church in New York City
• 1896 - The first modern Olympic Games begin in Athens, Greece
• 1909 - Explorers Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson become the first men to reach the North Pole
• 1915 - A daughter, Adelaide, is born to Robert and Tisha Chapman
• 1917 - The United States declares war on Germany
• 1920 - Physicist Erwin Schrödinger marries Annemarie Bertel
• 1937 - Country singer/songwriter Merle Haggard is born
• 1956 - Paramount Pictures sign Elvis Presley to a 3 movie deal
• 1971 - Russian composer Igor Stravinsky dies at age 88
• 1998 - Country singer Tammy Wynette dies at age 55
• 2015 - Adelaide Chapman Vaughn celebrates her 100th birthday

100

If my Dad were still alive, today would be his 100th birthday.

Shakespeare’s birthday

William Shakespeare’s birthday is April 26 (today). Dictionary.com has provided Shakespeare’s Novel Neologisms We Still Use in honor of the occasion.