Posts Tagged ‘birthday’
The Sweetest Freedom
To the best of my knowledge, July 4, 2016 was the only Fourth of July for which I was free. My husband and I spent the day, and many of the surrounding days, trying to figure out how we could prevent our new rescue dog from hearing the loud booms and pops, since she was…
Read MoreLife in Bloom
When I was little, it always made me sad that the saying was “April showers bring May flowers.” It wasn’t fair, I thought, that my birthday month was the “shower” month and not the “flower” month. April brings flowers, too, you know—flowers and gorgeous, perfect, fresh weather. April isn’t all showers. [pullquote width=”300″ float=”left”]At a…
Read MoreCelebrating Life
My mother had a strange ritual that she would perform. If she happened to be looking up and see that the clock said 3:21, she began to sing “Happy Birthday” in a low tone with her clear, wonderful soprano. She passed along her strange ritual to my father who, if the clock happened to say…
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