Poor William's Almanack, February 27, 2008, Great Expectations

Ben Franklin's bifocals Wednesday, February 27, 2008

[1807 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet, born in Portland, Maine]

[1886 - Hugo (Lafayette) Black, Supreme Court Justice, born in Harlan, Clay County, Alabama]

Marian Anderson - Contralto
[1897 - Marian Anderson, diva, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]

[1902 - John (Ernst) Steinbeck, writer, born in Salinas, California]

[1904 - James T. Farrell, author, born in Chicago]

[1910 - Joan (Geraldine) Bennett, actress, born in Palisades Park, New Jersey]

[1942 - Battle of the Java Sea, Allied Naval Force attacks Japanese invasion convoy and suffers heavy losses]

Great Expectations

You have no reason to be disappointed in your children as they were never obligated to fulfill any of your expectations of them.

William's Whimsical Words:

Neither should you seek to realize your frustrated dreams through the lives of your offspring.

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