Father (in-law) time

Last week my father-in-law came for an overnight visit. He’s brilliant in many ways and was always ahead of his time in business and in his dental practice, but now much to his chagrin, time is catching up with him.

His mind is sharper than a tack and he can talk about any topic and does. He loves to reminisce about his childhood, his days in the Army during WWII, his transition from business into dentistry (because as a GI it paid more), his days at Yale, UCONN, and the University of Maryland. We took him to the Yale campus to see his old classroom buildings and his residence hall.

He moved to Panama, the last low cost paradise that takes American dollars, after his 84th birthday last year. In fact, the hat that he has on is a black-market Phillies hat that somehow ended up in a Panama hat shop after an equally astute opportunistic entrepreneur put “Panama” on the brim and the flag on the cap.

He’s got a lot of character to say the least, and his face reflects it.