My wife, Tiffany, is having a birthday today. It’s been a hell of a year, for a lot of reasons, mostly good, but you know how reasons are, lots of gray in with the black and white. So on the occasion of her birthday, I wanted to remind her that I love her. She is […]
Today is my birthday. I share it with a national tragedy. I like to acknowledge both. For the birthday, I share it with my friends and family. For the other, I share it here. On the day I turned thirty-one, terrorists killed 3,000 people in the United States. It was a horrific moment of awakening […]
In lieu of my usual “Happy Birthday to Me” post, I present you with this, posted serendipitously just yesterday, from Diesel Sweeties by Richard Stevens:
Too old to be a child prodigy, too young to be an elder statesman. Today is my birthday. Serious thoughts on the date itself later today, but for now, I just want to give a shout out to my parents, without whom I would not be here, and my family, without whom I would not […]
Okay, not 21, exactly, but that’s the best answer when a woman asks you to guess her age. It is her birthday today, and we have big plans. Okay, not exactly big plans, because we’re parents of two kids under five, and she’s a second-year college professor, but we do have a babysitter for Saturday […]