Today is my 30th birthday. I've started to write this blog a few times (well, mostly in my head) but haven't quite found the way to say what I want to say. I still haven't, but time's up so this is what you get. It's better than draft #1, which was a list of all the famous people I've now outlived ( Read more... )

I am 29 today ( Read more... )

My birthday is always a complicated time for me. I do not like these rather arbitrary checkpoints, times when we are conditioned to look back and judge our own progress. As if my life on May 30th, 2010 can be related to my life on May 30, 2009 in neat list form:

Beth is
(check all that apply)Happier ( Read more... )