Always a Good Day in Our Family

I guess that for many (most?) people, April 14 is synonymous with tax-deadline dread—the last day to hunker down, crunch the numbers, collate the documents, and make some sense out of that stack/box/tangle of papers that gets no attention whatsoever on the other 364 days of the year.

I have a very different association, because April 14 is my dad's birthday.

He would have been 82 this year.

So if you're hunkered down, having a late night with your 1040 and cursing the IRS, maybe take a moment away from the figures and the formulas and a give a shout out to my dad.

I'm sure he's up there, smiling.

And probably hanging out with some very, very happy CPAs.