A while back, one of the girls scanned in some old family photos.  One of them was my “engagement picture.”  I hadn’t seen it in years and was seriously amused at my choice of hairdo.  I recall that it required half-a-can of Aqua Net hairspray to maintain it in the West Texas Wind. I could not recall what my inspiration had been.

Then, in the middle of the night last night, I was doing a little surfing and happened upon an ancient episode of “The Dick Van Dyke Show,”  and there she was — clearly my coif’s model — Laura Petrie!  Well, at least I got the hair right. I should have studied her eyebrows more closely.