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Friday, March 17, 2006
Happy Birthday, Grandma
Is blog an Irish term? Perhaps not, but I hope you will excuse the blarney while I wish a "Happy Birthday" to my great-great grandmother Eliza Cotter who would be 180 years old this St. Patrick's Day. She was born on a March 17 near Newry in County Armagh. She had a daughter, Mary Elizabeth "Mollie" (my great-grandmother), who like my granddaughter Anna was born on Christmas Day. And, of course, my other granddaughter is named Erin. Myself, more like an ordinary three-leaf clover, was born on the third day of the third month of 1930. That makes me age 76. That's the spirit.
And St. Patrick's Day is the only day of the year that I become John O'Lesky. I think my Polish ancestors will forgive me for that. If it makes them turn green, then at least they'll be the appropriate color. Paula, who is Irish, and I enjoyed a 2-man Irish "band" at Cleveland Metropolitan Parks on St. Patrick's Day night.
Is blog an Irish term? Perhaps not, but I hope you will excuse the blarney while I wish a "Happy Birthday" to my great-great grandmother Eliza Cotter who would be 180 years old this St. Patrick's Day. She was born on a March 17 near Newry in County Armagh. She had a daughter, Mary Elizabeth "Mollie" (my great-grandmother), who like my granddaughter Anna was born on Christmas Day. And, of course, my other granddaughter is named Erin. Myself, more like an ordinary three-leaf clover, was born on the third day of the third month of 1930. That makes me age 76. That's the spirit.
And St. Patrick's Day is the only day of the year that I become John O'Lesky. I think my Polish ancestors will forgive me for that. If it makes them turn green, then at least they'll be the appropriate color. Paula, who is Irish, and I enjoyed a 2-man Irish "band" at Cleveland Metropolitan Parks on St. Patrick's Day night.
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