Today is my lovely, charming, talented, often-sweet-but-sometimes-flinty, opinionated-but-not-dogmatic, very pregnant and feeling self-conscious about it (December, boy) wife's birthday. She thinks she's getting old - due to the fact that we all age at the same rate, she'll always be young to me. She is a remarkable, loving mother and step-mother, generous, a hard worker, a very fine writer, and the best partner in the world. Happy Birthday, Dawn. Love, Eric
"A sinister cabal of superior writers."
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1 - Dawn
Well, thanks for all of those nice things you said. And you are not at all biased.
Does this mean I am allowed to have some cake?
2 - Al Barger
34? Dang, you're old. Are you going to spend the day shopping for one of those motorized scooter things for you old folks?
3 - Dawn
I may be old, smelly and pregnant, but Al, I can so take your sorry butt.
With or without a scooter.
4 - Corinna hasofferett
Hi Dawn,
Reminds me - once an Israeli poet complained to me, "Corinna, I'm old, I'm 69."
I told you, when you'll be eighty you'll look back and say, "How young I was when I was only 69 yrs old."
And guess what: He's now indeed 80 and in a newspaper article it said he's running up and down the stairs as easy as said.
Happy Birthday Dawn. Savor the day.
(By the way, what day in December?...)
5 - Temple A. Stark
Dawn - truly a gifted person. and a perosan easy to care for because of her "i-don't give-afuck-ok-i-really-do vulnerability and parallel strength.
6 - Dawn
Thanks for the kind thoughts Corrinna and Temple, although I may not be old, I just feel old.
And yes, I do indeed give a fig.
7 - Natalie Davis
Dawn, you rock. Happy belated birthday. And don't fret -- some of us are older than you.
8 - Dawn
Yeah, but they all look better ;)
9 - David
Happy b-day Dawn...anywhere in your thirties is Y-O-U-N-G! Trust me...I've got the big 40 staring me down next year. Still feel 29 of course...
BTW, is Eric Olsen the same Eric Olsen who worked as a promo rep for a major labels in the '90s?
Enjoy your day....