Thanks to my Father for my Life Teachings

Janet Crawford

Thanks to my Father for my Life TeachingsTo my father, James Thomas McKinney in celebration of his 80th birthday, January 12, 2005For your 80th birthday, and for that matter, many of them, I have pondered what to get you…. a man of few needs or wants; simplicity at its finest. After giving it much thought, I decided to attempt to tell you just a few of the ways you have forever touched and shaped my life--my father, my dad, my friend, the children’s grandfather who chased them down the hotel hallway with his teeth in his hand. Dad, it is true you are known as a man of few words; clearly, that is also not one of the genes I inherited as evidenced early on by the many notes sent home from school telling you I talked too much. You must have wanted to strangle me.

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