13 Years Ago Today Was the Happiest Day of My Life!

Thirteen years ago today, I became a mother and it was the happiest day of my life. If there was a moment in my life I could relive 1,000 times it would be the moment I first saw my baby girl and held her in my arms for the first time. Happy Birthday, Juliette! I thank God for bringing you into my...

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My Father Turns 80

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...

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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 the year you were born....

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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, I...

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