I think birthdays are a stupid custom. Animals do not celebrate them or take any notice of them, and we would be better off if we behaved likewise.

But I'm afraid it's too late for that now...old culture done got us by de short hairs and we cain't stop fixatin' on how old we is!

Funny how people spend the first 20 years wishing they were older...and how rapidly it switches around not long after that. I wish nobody, and I mean NOBODY had any idea how old they or anyone else was, following the attainment of young adulthood.

- LH