birthdays | birthdays
Apr.18.2013
I’m a year away from turning the big 5 0.
Not that I made any real big plans yet to celebrate.
Dad has not been well so it’s hard to focus on anything else aside from him.
I do think about how to celebrate 50 years of a good life.
It’s a year away and I have time to figure this out later.
Is...
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Mar.08.2013
Today we celebrate my sister's birthday. She's our tribe's youngest member, Mom's final hoorah as a new Mom.
Celebrate is relative. It's different than how it was when we were children. Then, there would have been a party with cake and ice cream, gifts and cards. Now there...
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Nov.07.2012
It was my birthday yesterday. I feel this is something you ought to know. This summer, the kids asked me what were the most important dates in history. I told them, in no uncertain terms, that Charles’ birthday was right up there hovering round the number one slot. They seemed to think I was joking...
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Aug.22.2012
I can't believe I did this. It's one of those things that make me shake my head, grit my teeth and resist the urge to throttle myself. I blame Facebook, of course, and the technology that surrounds us. Yes, that's the problem.
Faceback has a pleasant reminder system about birthdays. Each week...
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Aug.20.2012
Years ago I stopped celebrating holidays like Easter and Christmas. Not because I had anything against them but because the meaning of these days changed for me. At first I thought it was because of the commercialism and the rhetoric but as the days came and went I realized it was because...
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Jun.04.2012
I woke up to coffee, oatmeal and Katherine Gregor's lovely lovely review of I Woke Up In Love This Morning on Smashwords. Now I'm watching a documentary Animal Planet did on mermaids. I can't think of a better way to start the last day of my thirties.
The months before I turned...
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May.31.2012
Today is my niece's birthday. She is twenty-six years old.
I remember when she was born. It was only a couple of weeks before my wedding. We had our fingers crossed that she would arrive before the big day. She didn't disappoint.She was the youngest member of our wedding (and the best behaved!)
I...
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Apr.18.2012
I think that it’s note worthy to say that birthdays are special.
I think that while it is most appreciated receiving birthday greetings, what truly matters for me in addition to being remembered is remembering.
Not just remembering for the sake of being polite because Facebook announces a birthday...
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Feb.17.2012
"They say it's your birthday. Well, it's my birthday, too."
I've always wanted to use those lyrics in something other than a song, and now I've found a way. It's a little self-aggrandizing to mention that it's my birthday today, but all my friends and family live far away and I work at home so...
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Jan.15.2012
Today’s my birthday. I share it this year with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a calendrical accident that confers the spiritual equivalent of a contact high.
But for me, a birthday is always an occasion. Every year has a distinct character and completeness that begs to be understood: I want to...
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