At 63, Grateful but Diminished
Most of my life, even when I was a young kid, I never cared much about my birthday. I attributed that in part to the fact that, falling close to Thanksgiving, my birthday was always second fiddle (even in my mind) to the bigger holiday. This year, though, my birthday feels more significant. Probably because, but for the miracles of modern medicine, I wouldn’t have had this birthday, and even […]