birthdays

kirby’s birthday

Yeah, it’s today.  We started out with a little, “Let’s have supper,” get together, that bloomed into a huge family thing with rowdy kids in costumes with laser swords and unbelievable racket. That’s her above, in my sister’s lap, Heidi on her knee.   I love how Pam’s own baby is swimming over to them.   That’s […]

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sharing joe

His mother does. She’s generous and wonderful. I never forget whose kid he is. Wherever I am? There’s always a mother on the other side, and his mom was a person I knew and liked as a teenager though we weren’t buddies, in different friend circles, when I heard who Joe’s mother was?  Pssht. Heidi,

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tim’s twelve

 He is, so we had a party last night.   It was a beautiful, hot day, just like the day he was born.  We were mostly outside because it was just too stuffy inside the house.  The new bike:  The big, fat chocolate cake:  I thought about buying a cake, skip running the oven, but it

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