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For Starlight Born with Robbie Burns

Although some celebrate today the Scotsman’s favorite bard, my day is elsewise occupied and I shall find it hard to think of he whose “Auld Lang Syne” will ring out through the night. For this day someone else was born … Continue reading

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On Reaching Forty in a Week

In a week I will be forty. If my mother’s right it’s time to get my act together and find more delight in doing what needs to be done to build something to show for two score spent in dissipation … Continue reading

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The Other Shoe Drops

My mother, who turns seventy next year, four days from now is driving from LA, alone across almost two thousand miles (she plans between ten and twelve miles a day) to visit us in New Orleans — she says, for … Continue reading

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Birthday Wishes to an Attorney

In my youth I sought for truth, and studied law and sense bringing to bear my youthful air, but no experience and now, much later, perhaps fate, or some wild freak of chance finds me still seeking, although creaking, in … Continue reading

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Birthdays

Happy Birthday to Starlight Dances! Things to do today: Take Star out to dinner and thoroughly break our diet 🙂 Call Star’s mom and give her congratulations on having given birth to Star 🙂 Do all the dishes, laundry and … Continue reading

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Being Thirty Eight

Now that I am thirty eight (just this month) it’s probably time I got my thing in gear; or at least to some extent, figured out what role it is I tried out for, since it’s obvious at this point … Continue reading

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