16 January 19

Thirty-three years ago today, in the year when I myself would turn 33, I witnessed the birth of Benjamin Robert Kleppinger. He has turned out pretty well, graduating with a perfect record from Kleppinger Home School and magna cum laude from Eastern Kentucky University. His journalism major prepared him perfectly for his current position as editor of the Advocate-Messenger daily newspaper in Danville, KY. As his grandmother Ethel Kleppinger would say, we are bursting our buttons when we think about Ben. He likes my Tyrannosaurus Rex tie and chooses it often for his birthday celebration day.


A photo from 2008