- I’m left-handed.
- I’m the only person in my immediate family who was born in an odd-numbered year.
- Once I met Nadia Comaneci, and I shook hands with Pope John Paul II at an audience in St. Peter’s Square.
- Once I slept through an earthquake.
- I’m impatient with people who make noise in movies.
- The day after I arrived in Japan, Emperor Hirohito died.
- I was born in the year of the Tiger. I enjoy this meaningless distinction better than being a Capricorn.
- I was in Poland in 1980 when the Solidarity Movement strikes began. (I swear I had nothing to do with them. I was in Warsaw at the time…although I did go to Gdansk the day after the strikes started.)
- I used to have a pet cockatiel, Jack Nicklaus “Nicky-bird”
Cockatiel Swanson Gumnick, but he died last summer at the age of 20. I buried him under a lemon tree in my backyard. I grew that tree from a seed I planted when I was a freshman in college. - I have an opinion on everything.
- I can say at least a word or two in nine languages. The only one I’m really good at is English, but I’ve made a lot of recent progress in Spanish.
© 2007 Edward F. Gumnick
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