Alex Polazneck

AN EXEMPLARY LIFE

My birth certificate reads "Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital-Indianapolis, Indiana, Date of Birth- September 14, 1950, Name- William Barker". My mother would later tell me that it was during a raging thunderstorm that I was born at 11:55 pm on that stormy Saturday evening. What a way to start the weekend! Maybe it was a harbinger of things to come.