So, today is my younger daughter’s birthday. (She is my middle child, but, for almost a decade, she was my youngest child. Until a surprise child arrived when she was almost 8 years old.)
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Hope you have lots of candles. It’s someone’s birthday today!
So, today is my younger daughter’s birthday. But, for almost a decade, she was my youngest child. Until a surprise child arrived when she was almost 8 years old.
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The Ninth of the Ninth Month
Hmm. What to discuss today? Should I tell you about my friends? Or my close relatives? Or my children and grandchildren?
A birthday not (The E is not silent- it’s missing!)
So, I wrote the poem on my birthday. Just to codify my feelings. And, my friends convinced me that I should post this on my blog, too.
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Twice Chai!
For years, Shira was the baby of the family. Until she turned 8, when a new (surprise) addition arrived. Shira’s first reaction? “Put him back! I want a baby sister.”
Yankee Doodle Went to Town
The Fourth of July.
No, I won’t be talking about how TheDonald has hijacked the holiday and will be making it a crass political statement- one all about him. (Nothing else ever counts for him, anyway.)
The 13th…
A few years after my older daughter was born, we had a new addition to our family. And, she served as our youngest child for almost a decade.
Rosh Hashana- and something else
In two days, the month of Elul will end. As I wrote on the first day, when the period of self-assessment begins, we are 30 days into the 40 day period of determining how we can make our lives- and the lives of others- better. (You can also search for Elul in the index to the left and see more of my thoughts on this “resolution-making” period.)
What a special day. No zero’s here yet.
Listen… Do you want to know a secret?
No, I am not channeling one of my favorites songs from the Beatles. Today is the birthday of my eldest. Of course, we use the time a baby breathes its first, but Shoshana took way more than a day from the time her mother’s water broke to enter into the world.
The Ides of March was yesterday
The Ides of March.
A date most of us have learned. Thanks to a long-dead playwright. William Shakespeare. Who ensured the world would remember this day as the one when Julius Caesar, the imperial ruler of Rome, was assassinated.