"Fly, yes. Land, no." or " Live Long and Prosper"

Leonard Nimoy, who famously played Spock in the original Star Trek, passed away last week at 83, then only a few days afterwards we almost lost Harrison Ford in a plane crash.

I am at the age now when the heroes we grew up with start to leave us. We look around at the celebrities today and often wonder what there is to celebrate.

Why should we be impressed with them when they get into drunken trouble on camera or strut around half naked on television? For the most part we are right not to.

To be honest, there just aren’t very many role-models to look up to these days. But from these tw...