Today is my nephew Maxwell’s birthday. He’s 13 now, and navigating that prickly, hormone-filled line known as adolescence. He’s become the kind of kid who loves Sasquatch, playing Minecraft, Internet memes, and quoting Monty Python….
Posts tagged Birthday
Two things about my beautiful niece on her 14th birthday
First of all, old-timey readers of I Will Dare may be shocked to learn that little Jaycie who looked liked this when I first started blogging is now a young woman of fourteen. People, she…
Thirty-nine
And thus I begin the last year of my thirties. I’m thirty-nine years old. I feel like I should be full of some sort of wisdom or something. Like 39 is the magic age of…
38 Special
That’s the first time I’ve seen my name alone on a birthday since I was seven years old. Okay, that’s kind of a lie. When I was 29 my coworkers brought me a cake for…
37, more of an exclamation than a curse
I love my birthday. Some people think it’s childish and others think it’s annoying, but I don’t care. Even on mellow, low-key years such as this, I still love my birthday. Even on melancholy, cold,…
Suck the Blood
In honor of today, Nolie’s 5th birthday. Suck the Blood from Jodi Chromey on Vimeo.