Saturday
Jan. 17, 1998
Birthdays
Maybe Alone on My Bike
Today's Reading: "Birthdays" and "Maybe Alone on My Bike" by William Stafford from PASSWORDS, published by Harper Perennial.
Philosopher and diplomat Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on this day in 1706, the tenth of seventeen children.
Al Capone, remembered for the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, was born on this day in Naples, Italy, 1899.
It's the birthday of actor James Earl Jones, born in Mississippi in 1931.
Mohammad Ali, formerly Cassius Clay, was born on this day in Louisville in 1942.
American poet William Edgar Stafford was born in Hutchinson, Kansas, 1914.
Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.®