Admit it – getting out of bed today was more than just a task. It was, ugh, painful.

And once you got up, well, the back was stiff as a board; not to mention how tough it was just putting one foot in front of the other.

Here’s some good news. No, it’s not a cure, but it just might make you feel a little bit better.

Thanks to Mel Finkenberg. The former tri-captain of Lafayette High’s 1965-66 tri-division championship basketball team just celebrated another trip around-the-sun. His 77th.

“I think,” he said from his home in Hawaii, “It feels like the right time to reflect. I’ve never really shared a personal reflection before; but a lot has happened along the way.”

So here goes.

“When I was about 12 or 13, at our family’s summer home, a kid about my age hit me square in the eye with a r

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