Happy Birthday, Dear You!!

It’s your birthday!!

Birthdays are like one’s personal Christmas. It’s a time to sit and stew in mushy appreciation for someone’s place in your life. So let’s take a long moment to do that.

You were the first person to hold me as a baby. It set the tone for the rest of my life: you’ve always held me when I cried. There have been low times when I wanted to reach out to my friends, but worried…