Michael Gordy

Happy Birthday, Jim. We'd still love to have you visit us here in the Dordogne. In the meantime, Keep On Truckin'
-----Mister Natural

Many happy, healthy returns of the day, Ron. I hope you and your loved ones are keeping safe in these perilous, rudderless times. All the best, Mike

Happy Birthday, Ken. And many happy, healthy returns of the day. I hope you are well and that you are keeping safe in the midst of the chaos. Not an easy thing to do.....

Posted on: Jul 15, 2020 at 6:57 AM

Many happy, healthy returns of the day, Bruce. When the US gets its act together and its citizens are no longer personae non grata in the EU, why not come over here for a visit?

Happy Birthday, Rob. I wish you many happy, healthy returns of the day.

Happy Birthday, Jim, and many more healthy and happy ones as we 'slide down the razor blade of life'.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIKE May your life be full of happiness and good things to come Enjoy your day and may the rest of your years to come be filled with peace and prosperity Good health and good wealth to you and yours now and in the future Ken Rotter

hI mIKE HOW ARE YOU HAVENT HEARD FROM YU IN AWHILE LIVING THE GOOD LIFE I HOPE VISITED HOME AND SCHOOL LAST SUMMER HOPE TO DO IT AGAIN THIS SUMMER 2019 ALL THE BEST TO YOU AND YOURS 7018339943 KEN ROTTER

Happy Birthday, Rob, with many happy, healthy returns of the day. All the best, Mike

Happy Birthday, Altus Fartus! Do you still play the trombone? I play a bit every day and fantasize about what I sounded like 20 years ago, making sure the windows are shut so the property values in our neighborhood don't sink any further or faster. I have fond memories of the noise we made together in high school, particularly in the brass ensemble we played in. I hope you are well and that you have a nice celebration 'as we slide down the razor blade of life' (Tom Lehrer, the comic, circa 1958)

Happy Birthday, Ron, and many happy, healthy returns. And welcome to your Second Childhood! I'm on my third, and I have fond memories of my second.

Posted on: Jun 22, 2017 at 4:33 AM

Posted on: Feb 25, 2017 at 8:19 AM

Dear Linda,
Many happy and healthy returns of the day as we 'slide down the razor blade of life' (Tom Lehrer). I hope you are well and are enjoying life. I am working on helping overcome the political and economic barriers to doing anything at all effective against climate change, so I guess I won't be retiring. I guess that being given the opportunity to add my little drop into the ocean is what makes me believe I have a happy life, especially after all these years of 'screaming in an empty room' (Nietszche). The only thing 'good' about the coming-to-power of Trump and his cabal is that it seems to have awakened many people from their slumbers, something that those of us who have been watching all this for many decades had despaired of ever happening. These are dangerous times, of course, but they always have been (be sure to hide under your school desk during an air raid drill) and now it is almost past time for all of us to wake up and join together despite the identity politics, post-modernist claptrap and consumerist emoluments that have kept us somnolent all these years. (I apologize for the rant, but since we never really got to know each other, and since the likelihood of our ever doing so is nil, I fall back on being in my dotage and am letting myself go a bit.) But the message from me today is, be well and happy and useful for the rest of your time on this mortal coil. Fondly, Mike the Knife

PS: I tried to sed tis as a private message, but the dog ate it or something wlse occurred and it would not go through.