Our dear friend Fred Petrucelli celebrated his 100th birthday last weekend. It might seem like an April Fools’ Day joke because he doesn’t look or act 100. He could pass for decades younger. He is well-read, well-spoken and has a great sense of humor.

Fred has been a journalist for more than 60 years, and my husband and I met him when we worked with him at a previous newspaper. Fred also wrote sports and news for the Arkansas Democrat before it became the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. The last story he wrote was published in a magazine just a few weeks ago. Seriously, is that a Guinness World Record?