The Wish Master
“Do you remember the yellow dress?” My sister asked me that on the phone last year. Out of nowhere. We had been talking about something completely unrelated and then suddenly — the yellow dress. I did not remember the yellow dress. She described it for two minutes. A dress our mother had bought. A birthday. … Read more
How well do you actually know the people you wish happy birthday? Think about your phone contacts. Think about everyone who will have a birthday in the next thirty days. Some of them you know completely — their fears, their habits, the specific way they laugh when something is genuinely funny versus politely funny. Others … Read more
I sent a funny birthday message to my aunt once. Wrong aunt. Not wrong in the sense that it was mean or inappropriate. Wrong in the sense that it was written for someone who appreciated dry self-deprecating humour and my aunt — the one who actually received it — did not. She responded with three … Read more