I usually like to snuggle up with you on the night before your birthday, and as you fall asleep I think about that same night a certain number of years ago and the journey between then and now. This week has been about the most miserable weather in a month of the most miserable in…
Category: letters to my loves
happy birthday
Your birthday falls now in the unfortunate position between banana buffets and nail polish parties. We ask you every year what you’d like for your birthday and you always reply that you’re good. No piles of thirty-seventh birthday invitations stack up on the dining room table, and any small trinket or large item that we…
happy, happy birthday, my happy, happy girl
They do not make them any sweeter than you. ….. What a year, my big girl. Friday morning, on the ninth of July, as I stretched out across the sheets, buried my head in the pillow to block out the summer morning light, and rolled from my side of the bed to your dad’s –…