Meryl's Notes Blog

In the USA, we honor Martin Luther King, Jr. on the third Monday of the month, which happens to fall on my birthday this year. Couldn’t ask for a better holiday to share on the annual personal day.

Appropriately, on the day we honor differences, I received Ukranian birthday wishes from Oleksiy Kolisnychenko. The note says, “Here, in Ukraine, people wish each other on their birthdays luck, happiness and more creative ideas, so I want to wish you vdachi, schastya ta tworchikh uspikhiv. "Happy birthday to you" will sound "Z dnem narodzhennya tebe" in Ukrainian.” That’s what I love about the ‘net, it’s a great way to learn about other cultures.