HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DAD! I miss you everyday & I still hear your (solicited & unsolicited!) words of wisdom throughout my day everyday. I haven't seen your face, heard your voice, smelled your aftershave or cologne in 14 years now yet the lifetime of love you gave, the lessons taught, lessons learned & thousands of hours we spent sharing your life experiences, unconventional life hacks & "unpopular" philosophies with me, all of which tie into my life daily in some shape or form. That said, I must admit that you indeed were about 85-90% right about everything thus far and with that, what I consider now to have been quite a visionary, so many of your predictions for the future, (both mine as an individual and the universe as a whole) that I believed were too far out, unfathomable even, have in actuality come to fruition & have become reality! How you had the insight & ability to foresee so accurately from such a point in time that was still leaps & bounds away from the stepping stones leading us to today is a mystery i will never solve. I am still working on making the numerous repairs needed for my continued existence and i try to improve on 1 area per day while learning a new skill or word or lesson to make my day more meaningful. In closing, happy birthday, Dad, I will continue to honor your life by sharing your words and the endless memories I was blessed to make with you. --- Tiffany R. Laskey Brown

13 long and tumultuous years without you, Dad. You had innate sense of what the future held & sadly, your last & deepest fears on leaving us on this plane were no exception. A true visionary and a realist, you were my hero and my motivation to succeed. You once compared my ballerina skills to being "as graceful as an elephant", well my failure is its equivalent. I miss you everyday just the same as I miss us and the lifetime of memories we made and love you gave. As I sit here reflecting on all that you shared with and sacrificed for me, I weep for being too naive and bit too proud to have fully understood the magnitude of your love for me/us ergo lacking the gratitude for you that now consumes me day in & day out. For that I am forever sorry yet eternally grateful to have been blessed with you for my father. I know you will have much to say when we meet again most of which I am not looking forward to.
FREDERICK WAYNE LASKEY;
(Father, son, brother, uncle, nephew, friend, neighbor, coworker) You are sorely missed