John Heald's Blog

Theresa Asked:
Theresa (reply pls)
I hope some day to meet you. I enjoyed every minute of the day in Philly and wish you would do one in Chicago so that I could gather my gf group friends for a day out there. You won’t be sorry at all. Oh well, that may not happen, but some [...]

Birthdays are crap.
Mine no longer tend to herald exciting parties and the greedy shredding of wrapping paper. They are now just mileposts that point the way toward the inexorable arrival of old age and incontinence.
Because I’m an increasingly maudlin fellow, I tend to treat other people’s “special days” in the same vein. And so it [...]