Tag Archives: birthdays
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Milestones and Millstones
8June 26, 2016 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
My father took an early retirement, at 55. My mother, four years younger, taught her third grade class for nine …
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Birthday Boy
28February 21, 2016 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Today my son Aidan is twenty-seven. I have experienced contentment in solitude, and I have experienced it in the company …
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The Cards We’re Dealt
23June 8, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. – Randy Pausch A funny thing …
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The Keeper of Birthdays
40June 1, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Last week I had a blessedly low-key birthday. The blessing is because it is the year-before-a-milestone birthday. A milestone, a …
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