Me: Hellooo! Patrick: Hello? Me: Hey!!! Patrick: Hi. Me: What are you doing? Partying? Patrick: Yeah. We’re watching home movies. Me: Cool. Are you having fun? Patrick: … Who is this? Me: It’s Lindsey! Patrick: OH, HEY! Me: You having a big birthday? Patrick: Yeah, we’re watching a video from February. Me: You’re gonna come visit me in a couple of weeks, right? Patrick: Yep. Me: All right, well, sorry I couldn’t make it to…
[photo by my mom, who remarked, in an e-mail to me: “Now, isn’t this just trouble waiting to happen…!”] This is my youngest nephew, Patrick. Today is his tenth birthday. It’s hard to believe he’s hitting double digits. I remember exactly what I was wearing the day he was born. I was a freshman in high school and, naturally, obsessed with clothes. Strangely enough for someone obsessed with clothing, I was wearing a long-sleeved, tight-fitting,…
My mom with a beached pink whale in 2005. Today is my mom’s 51st birthday. I’m not sure if she’s at the point yet where she’s reluctant to tell people her age, but I hope not; I think she should be proud of her years and her experiences and her wisdom. She has always been reluctant to color the grey in her hair, and for a long time (okay, like, three years when I was…
I just called my dad to wish him a happy 52nd, and, just like last year, he was at work. He sounded tired. I found out it’s because of some new medicine he’s on to, ironically, help him sleep. If he doesn’t take it at a certain time and get a certain amount of sleep, he has to trudge through the next day with that annoying cold-medicine buzz droning in his head. So, in addition…
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