Tag Archive: birthday

How to turn fifty

I have a secret to share. It will be my birthday in a few days (on January 26), and I will be fifty. That’s not the secret though – I’m pretty sure my friends and family already know this, since I’ve been reminding them for months – or they’ve been reminding me. The secret is…it’s…

A Fifty Year Conversation

My mother, Judy, is really something.  I was born when she and my father were 22, and in some ways, we all grew up together. We have always been unusually close. We’ve been having a non-stop conversation for fifty years. Other than when I was in high school, we have never had a difficult time…