by Doug Thompson | Dec 17, 2016 | Afflicting, Musings
Sixty-nine years ago this morning a doctor in a hospital in Tampa, Florida helped deliver a son to Ethel and Tommy Thompson. According to my mother, the doctor told her afterwards that I did not cry when he delivered the customary slap on my butt to wake me up....
by Doug Thompson | Dec 17, 2015 | Musings
Not that many years ago, I never expected to reach age 30, much less 68. My dad died in an industrial accident at 29. His four brothers died in their 20s. My mother, for a while, believed the family was jinxed because of the deaths of my dad and uncles. I lived...
by Doug Thompson | Dec 17, 2014 | Musings
In my 20s I fully expected to be dead by age 30. My dad died in an industrial accident at 29. All of his brothers died in their 20s. Young death appeared to be a given for males in the Thompson family in Florida in the 40s and 50s. I broke the jinx on December 17,...
