Posts Tagged ‘birthday’
A perfect collection of birthday presents
Yesterday was an especially delightful today for me. It was my birthday, and the gifts that I were given were brilliant. It started off in the morning with Elysha. Her family has always given their gifts at the crack of dawn, which was decidedly different than the after-dinner gift giving that I was accustomed to…
Read MoreThe two birthday gifts you should be asking for above all others
My birthday is approaching. My wife often asks me for possible gift ideas, as I can be a difficult person when it comes to presents. I am much more interested in eliminating things from my life than adding to it. The accumulation of stuff does not interest me. In fact, if someone would just agree…
Read MoreClara Susan: January 26, 2009
I wrote this seven years ago today, upon the birth of my daughter. Today she celebrates her seventh birthday. Such a big girl._______________________________________ Our day began yesterday, at 11:53 PM, when you mother awoke me from twenty minutes of glorious sleep to inform me that her water had broken. In fact, it was still breaking…
Read MoreClara’s sixth birthday. Make it stop.
My little girl turned six last week. She seems so old. Time hasn’t exactly flown by. I write to my daughter everyday, so perhaps that allows me to mark time well, but time is still moving forward, incessantly so, and my girl is getting bigger and more independent and more autonomous by the day. If…
Read MoreBased upon this year’s birthday gifts, I’m much more mature than I was two years ago.
My wife gave me tickets to American Idiot, the theatrical adaptation of Green Day’s rock opera of the same name, for my birthday. Coincidentally, a friend who shares the same birthday as me (along with a laundry list of other bizarre coincidences) also received tickets to American Idiot. Great minds think alike. Though I recently…
Read MoreThanks. Ouch.
My friend (who is under 30 and lives in Brooklyn) referred to me as a “42-year-old hipster” in his happy birthday greeting to me yesterday. I don’t think I’ve ever felt so complimented and insulted by the same statement.
Read MoreSlightly hazardous play makes a birthday party great.
I loved my daughter’s recent birthday party. Held at My Gym, which Clara believes is not the name of the place but a reference to the gym being her own (and I dare you to try to convince her otherwise), I couldn’t have been more pleased with the organized games that they offered. Normally Clara…
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