20070602 Quote of the Day: I am an old man

Quote of the Day – I am an old man…

Saturday, June 2^nd, 2007

"I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened."

Mark Twain.

For some context; I found this quote in a wonderful piece by Carroll County Times Youth Correspondent Samantha Bare, a senior at Delone Catholic High School in McSherrystown, Pa. Her column, “A final farewell” can be found in the “Synergy” section of the Friday, June 01, 2007 edition of the paper.

The subject of her column, a Delone English teacher, Mr. Byrne, brought back memories of one of my writing mentors, Mike Eaton, who taught for so many years at Westminster High School – and part of the reason my wife and I married…