I enjoy the year-end tributes magazines and newspaper do for all the famous people who died in the previous year. When Eartha Kitt died on Christmas Eve she was a little too late to make most of those eulogy compilations. However, she is the only celebrity who died this year (other than Paul Newman) to get mentioned on my blog, because she is the only one whose child played with my infant father aboard a boat to Finland in 1962. That is better than having your own salad dressing.

(The original picture is a bit blurry, so the quality isn’t all just me.)

This is not especially related, but my dad also shook hands with Bill Clinton on Hilton Head island in South Carolina on New Year’s Day in 1997 when they were both out running on the beach.