Prompt: Write about what you miss most from your teen years. …Twenties. …Thirties. …Forties. …Etc. What is the worst thing about  getting older? The best? What have you given up that you regret giving up?

Photo: Then and Now-ish

Quotation: I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth. – Ovid, Metamorphoses

Happy Birthday. You have a free pastry at Panera. – my son

Rec: Birthday Recs

Original Writing:

Transgender Bathroom Policy: A Comment on a Local Issue

Links:

Woman Murdered Pounding on Door for Help

Panera Bread

Starbucks

Payless Shoe Source

Red Robin

Shop Rite

Adagio Teas

Amazon Kindle

Other:

Advent – Day 3 (St. Clare of Assisi)