It's My Birthday!

Woo hoo! 40 years old and nothing's fallen off!

This photo captures my first entrepreneurial venture -- selling watermelon at the 1977 (or 1978?) Union Street Fair in San Francisco.


I was paying for the teddy bear in the photo. I sold each slice for 25 cents. My mom provided raw materials for free. (I loved fat profit margins, even then...)

I'll swim 4,000 yards today (birthday swim) and have a party (pizza in the wood-fired oven in the backyard) tomorrow. Yay!

Bottom Line: Life can be good or bad -- it depends on your prospective.