It's my birthday. I'm 44. I'm coming up fast on my 20th wedding anniversary, too.
Looking back on it, I wish I could go back to there, to the summer of 1984, when I sat at Kathe's kitchen table with all five of her kids (including two now deceased), and played Anomaly with several incomplete decks of cards mixed together. And five kings of spades.
Since going back to then is not actually an option, I guess I can settle for being very, very glad that I have spent the last 20 years here at Blackberry House, with Kathe, and that if they have produced nothing else worthy of note, there are those four swell kids (all still living) we raised together,
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