Long Nights

Vitalva River - Prague, 2009 The winter solstice, shortest day of the year, is on December 21st, at the height of the Christmas celebrations. Too many things are going on to notice how short the days are. Now that the holidays are behind us we soon realize how short the days are, how frigid they …

4th Birthday

1950 This little pudgeball is me at four years old. Today is my birthday, which I would normally ignore, but today is one of those milestone birthdays. You do the math. Thought for the Day: How old would you be if you didn't know how old you was?Satchel Paige

Birthday Girl

She knows the drill: blow out the candles, lick the frosting off the cake, bounce off the walls with a sugar high, then open fancy-wrapped packages of socks from grandma. Repeat if necessary. This little party was two weeks early, as we will be out of town for her real birthday in early February. Thought for …