Today is my father’s 80th birthday. Wow. Happy Birthday, DB! You mean the world to me! —YBG *** I saw my father today. I walked into his room to find him staring out the window. He was wearing cranberry-colored sweats. My father would not have been caught dead in sweats prior to his nursing home […]
Letter To My Little Boy On His Fourth Birthday
Today, my son turns four. Here is a letter to my little boy. dear sully, my father wrote something in a card to me once. i came across it recently. he wrote, “you were one of my favorite gifts of all.” my father was 37 the year i was born; the same age i was […]
Happy Birthday, Mom!
In 1967, in L.A. County General Hospital, my mother delivered me. In other words, I was born. She told me this story one time – just one time – about how the nurses whisked me off to the nursery after delivery, and she didn’t see me for at least three days. Things were different then, […]