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Birthday Milestones

Birthdays are such a big deal when you’re a kid. You’re growing up and changing, entering new grades, making new friends, and learning new things. It seems that the newness of everything makes birthdays special.

I’ve always celebrated my birthday, even as friends and relatives have stopped marking the passage of time. There’s something about a day all to yourself. I never work on my birthday if I can help it. I take that time to read or send out poetry submissions to magazines. This year, I’m not sure what I’m going to do, but I’m definitely marking my birthday.

As part of that, I wanted to share some relatively big news for me, because it has never happened before — I was named as a finalist in a writing contest.

Let’s see what the rest of 2022 has in store.

Happy birthday!

A big happy birthday to my brother, Aaron, today.

I hope this year brings you more good things and hopefully, some new activities. It’s been an adjustment over the last couple of years for you, but I hope you are feeling more settled and happier.