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My birthday was yesterday and Oh! I love birthdays now. I love holidays. I love celebration and joy.
Every celebration heals my soul, even now. After all this time, there’s a small part of me that is making up for all those missed celebrations of my JW childhood.
I am sorry that I have not been posting [...]

Ben’s birthday celebration started Tuesday - on his “real” birthday - with our family celebration and a visit from his uncle (my brother) and family. The big party was yesterday. Last year, there were a dozen kids in his kindergarten class. We invited everybody, and then a couple of other friends as well. This [...]

So - I’m 43 today!!!
Comment and wish me a happy birthday! Please?
It means even more to me than you might think - hey, I’m actually telling you my real age!
As Jehovah’s Witnesses, our family usually didn’t celebrate birthdays. I do remember a couple of years when my mom created little “unbirthday” celebrations (quietly, [...]

My friend Grateful Bear is celebrating the birthday of Pulizer-prize-winning Zen eco-poet Gary Snyder, and I’m joining the birthday party!
Happy Birthday Gary Snyder!
The Modern Poetry site (Dept. of English, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) has an interesting subsite on him that includes the following:
“Conservatism has some very valid meanings,” he says. “Of course, most of [...]

I’m 42 today. Happy Birthday to me!
April 15 is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (106th in leap years). There are 260 days remaining.
Venus, as the ancestress of the Julian house, is made to hasten the sun’s setting on April 15th.
Sir James George Frazer (1854 - 1941), The Golden Bough, 1922
Income [...]

I’m back. In case anyone might have noticed, this may have been the longest time I’ve gone without blogging in months.
We went to a family gathering in Florida in honor of my grandmother Evelyn’s 89th birthday. In addition to my little family, my mom and uncle, and my two brothers and their families were [...]

Here’s a meme.

What was the #1 U.S. Pop Song Hit on…
The Day You Were Born:
"Can’t Buy Me Love" by The Beatles
The Day You Were Married:
"My All" by Mariah Carey
The Day or Days Your Child/Children Were Born:
"Maria Maria" by Santana featuring The Product G&B
Do as many as you like - maybe [...]