Question Number One

1. When and where were you born? Did your parents ever share their memories with you about the day you were born?

I was born on the first day of Spring in the 50's, in a small hospital in a small Midwestern town. I believe the name of the doctor who delivered me was Sauer. I was born at 5:05 p.m., which sounds to me like a good time to get on a train and go somewhere. It was a Wednesday. Wednesday's child is full of woe, according to the nursery rhyme. That would be either "woe" or "Whoah!!", depending on what kind of day I was having. (Just kidding.)

I don't remember my parents sharing any memories about the day I was born. I was their third baby, so maybe they were fresh out of memories by then. (Just kidding again.) I do remember my mom telling me that she was given a general anesthetic during labor, so she was either asleep or pretty groggy by the time I arrived on the scene. Maybe that's why I like naps so much.

I do have a memory that involves the birth of MY first baby and Dr. Sauer's granddaughter. (No, not kidding.) She and my older brother went to a formal dance in high school together. (The granddaughter, not my baby.) I think her name was Shelly. (Again, not my baby.) Anyway, Shelly lived locally at the time. When I was a junior in high school, I was in a musical production of Jesus Christ Superstar at an Episcopal church in San Marino, and the guy's last name who played Judas was Weinmann. (Trust me, this all comes together eventually.) I went on a few dates with him after the show ended. Fast forward to 1981, and I was in the hospital after the birth of my first child. A nurse came in to see me and introduced herself as Shelly Weinmann. We chatted about our families and how she had gone to a dance with my brother, and how her grandfather had been my family's doctor. She was very nice. Then she told me that her husband played Judas in the same amateur production of Superstar as I did, and she was dating him while he was in the show and went to see him and really enjoyed our performance. Not sure if we were all dating each other at the same time, but she did say her husband remembered me. (Now is when I start singing "The Circle of Life".)