Posts Tagged as ‘Birthdays’

March 11, 2010

Happy 1st Birthday

And so it’s been a year.  A year since I wrote this letter to you, my dear readers, explaining what I was doing and why I was doing it and what it was supposed to accomplish.
My husband says I love celebrating things… and this is true.  If you know him, ask him sometime about his [...]

November 5, 2009

Celebrating 19 and 6

This afternoon I’ll board a plane and head off west.  I’ll arrive in a land of mountains and birthdays and friends.
My dear roommate from college is turning 25.
I still remember when she arrived at 19.  We were freshmen navigating our first semester in college.  19 seemed so old.  I mean, one more year and she wouldn’ t [...]

April 3, 2009

Insert the Unexpected

Today my great grandmother turns 100 years old. 
My father’s mother’s mother was born on April 3, 1909.  She worked in New York City during the Depression and shared a tiny apartment with five other girls.  She married her father’s much younger cousin and never had to change her name.  My great grandfather was a [...]