They Say It's Your Birthday

Birthday greetings to Carson Deffinbaugh, my high school tennis coach and father of my Senior crush, and to Bob Shriner, art director extraordinaire.

Also, to Beverly Sills, Ian McKellan, Dixie Carter, Jamaica Kincaid, and Anne Heche and, one therefore presumes, Celestia.

(It's my birthday too.)




Lily of the valley, my birth flower. My garden was started with pips from Grandpa Bud, who shares a May birthdate with my Nany Adda, who loved Muguet du Bois. Can't have these flowers around without thinking of both of them.