Happy Birthday little girl 🙂 ...
There is a new teenager in the house!
Fifty
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| First photograph March 31, 1974 Moses Cone Hospital Greensboro, North Carolina |
For a very long time I’ve believed that if you can make it to fifty without once getting told that you’re “middle-aged” it means that you’ll never have to be a grown-up.
Ahhhhh, so Fifty, we meet at last. I’ve been waiting for you. You thought I wouldn’t make it this far but you were wrong. You’re like One-Eyed Willie from The Goonies: you laid out your traps but I got past them all. And now here we are.
I shouldn’t be here. The odds have been against me from the very beginning. All the way back to that delivery room on a rainy Sunday night in 1974 when I emerged from my mother’s womb. Not moving, not crying, not breathing. It was twelve minutes after being born before air finally filled my lungs. Fortunately the doctor ...
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Well, I’m feeling pretty good, here on the home stretch to the half century mark. Tonight at 6:09 PM EST I officially turned forty-nine years old.
I had come to dread having a birthday. They used to be something that I looked forward to. But at least since 2000 it has come with pain preceded by the notion that I really haven’t done much with my life. It probably has something to do with my 26th birthday. That was spent at my grandmother’s funeral. I was one of the pallbearers. It also happened to take place a few months after the symptoms of manic depression first manifested and at that moment I was having a depressive episode.
But in the past few months and weeks it’s been… different. There has been no dread at all. In fact, I’ve been feeling pretty good about things. I like to believe it’s because ...
Lenten Blogging 2022: Day 40
It’s Tammy’s Tenth Birthday Party!! Here are some of the pics from the event, which was attended by two dogs and their collective three humans. Including photos of the cake I baked for the occasion. And a good time was had by all! Click to embiggen:
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| The birthday girl and me 🙂 |
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| Tammy’s friend Sasha |
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| Tammy did NOT like the idea of wearing a party hat! |
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| The cake |
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| Tammy couldn’t quite blow out the candles but it wasn’t for lack of trying! |
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| Sasha enjoying some cake (which was tasty by human standards too) |
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| Tammy eating her birthday cake |
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| Tammy’s new toy, courtesy of Sasha’s person Melody. It took her all of ten minutes to destroy the squeaker! |
Incidentally, if you want to bake a cake for your dog, here’s the recipe I found courtesy of Dorothy Kern at Crazy For Crust. The main ingredients are peanut butter, sugar-free applesauce, ...
Lenten Blogging 2022: Day 30
It’s my birthday today. I had no idea what to write for this exercise in light of that. I suppose that I’m feeling pretty good, about a lot of things. God has blessed me more than I possibly deserve to be. He has brought me a very long way along life’s journey and, I’m going to spend the rest of this evening being thankful for that. Some good friends took me out to dinner earlier tonight, and much laughter and joy was had by all.
When I consider what’s happened these past few years especially, I cannot but be grateful. To God. To the people He has put into my life. I hope and pray that I can be a testimony of them in a way that best honors them.
How about we all enjoy some birthday cake? 🙂
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Happy Birthday to Michael Caine!
The Knight Shift and its proprietor would like to wish a very wonderful Happy Birthday today to Michael Caine – one of the finest and most versatile actors ever – on the occasion of his turning 80 years young!
The above image is from Caine’s 2009 film Harry Brown. If you have not seen it yet, I heartily recommend it. It’s definitely one of the better movies I’ve seen made in recent years....
Air Jordan: Forever young
The people who I tend to admire the most are those who stay true to themselves, but also know how to change and grow as they get older. People who don’t let time wear them down but instead become the better for it.
This is one such person…
The Knight Shift says “Happy Birthday” and wishes all the best to Michael Jordan – perhaps the greatest player that the game of basketball has ever known – on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday today!...
Happy 80th Birthday to John Williams!
The Knight Shift and its eclectic proprietor wishes a VERY Happy Birthday today to composer/conductor John Williams!
This dude is 80 years young… and still composing some of the freshest-sounding movie scoring around!...
One hundred years ago today…
…the First Lady of Television was born.
Six decades later, and we are still cracking up with laughter over Lucy’s crazy shenanigans!
Happy One Hundredth Birthday to Lucille Ball. Gone from us, but never forgotten 🙂...
Forever young…
The Knight Shift’s eclectic proprietor joins many, many other fans and admirers around the world in wishing Bob Dylan all the best on this, his seventieth birthday!...