As I sat in front of my computer struggling to come up with a column idea that doesn’t focus on the coronavirus or politics, I found myself wondering what I wrote about, say, 10 years ago at this time of the year.
So I looked back at my column from July 8, 2010, and believe it or not, the following is the first sentence from that column 10 years ago. “Sometimes when I sit down to write this column, I don’t have any idea what I am going to write about and today is one of those days.”
As it turns out, 10 years ago I looked at the calendar and happened across the fact that Aug. 4 was National Middle Child Day.
So, I figured if that was a good column topic 10 years ago, it probably still is today.
For whatever reason, it seems National Middle Child Day has been moved from Aug. 4 to Aug. 12, and both dates are Wednesdays, of course.
As a middle child myself, I might celebrate the day by going shopping for some hand-me-down clothes or maybe shop for a used bike, used baseball glove … my fellow middle children will get my sarcasm. Some things are hard to forget.
Actually there have been some very famous middle children, such as Abraham Lincoln, Warren Buffet, Herbert Hoover, Jennifer Lopez, Anne Hathaway, David Letterman, Brittney Spears and Bill Gates, to name a few.
My sister-in-law is a middle child, our daughter Emily is our middle child, and our grandson Andrew is bookended by his two brothers.
Aug. 12 will come and go without so much as a mention of Middle Child Day as in years past, but here is a shout-out to my fellow middle children. Enjoy our day.