birthdays

Pookie

My sister Beth (AKA Pookie or Pookita) is another year older today. Happy birthday to Beth!

Pop

Richard Carter would be 90 years old today. He’s been gone seven and half years.

Karen

Sister Karen is another year older today. She’s four times a grandmother now, too!

Joseph

Tomorrow is nephew Joseph Myers’ 18th birthday. He’s the last of that generation to reach majority.

My sister Karen has a big ending in zero birthday today! Do the math. She’s 2.5ish years younger than me, and I’m 62. Karen is a mother of two and grandmother of four. Happy birthday to the middle child! And more recently:

#TBT: from Vienna

Written three years ago whilst I was in Vienna for a few weeks on a curriculum-development grant from Webster:

Aunt Esther

Today would be Aunt Esther’s 109th birthday. She made to just a few weeks shy of 102! A few months ago, I was clearing boxes in the basement when I found this one box of tchotchkes from her china cabinet. Tucked in there was this card that I sent her on her 97th birthday: