Father's Day, 2011

When my father was dying, he admitting cheating people when he first started in business, and he was in terror of what the afterlife would bring him in retribution.

But, when I was born, he became scrupulously honest, and, by being scrupulously honest, he made a small fortune.

Of course, as I discovered after his death, like the overwhelming majority of people who make a small fortune, he had made his small fortune by starting with a big one.

Still, unlike most of his competitors, my father never cheated anyone from the day I was born until the day he died, so I hope his sins--all committed before I was born--were forgiven him.