Today Is Your Birthday
L einey turned 19 this morning at 634 a.m. She has the most positive disposition of anyone I know. She also makes Jenny and I look like we hold 1950s small town conservative values. Leiney's beliefs are well informed and based on reading, schooling, podcasts, life experience and activism. She is everything I would be if I could go back and do my life over again. She can be sanctimonious, can perseverate, and be very judgmental of her parents, but that goes with the territory of the adult teen years. She has it all figured out. For now. She is a light burning bright. The Birthday Party It was a low key affair. Jane and Catherine came over, Jenny's sisters are in Sun Valley. Abby was moody, said moodiness has escalated in tbe last few days, for reasons unclear. Moreover, she is aloof with even me, which is new. That was true even before last night's drive to Red Robin. She, at 15, can truck no advice or direction on her driving. When I told her la...