Today is my birthday...here I thought all

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14. Happy birthday!

Other birthdays:

1804 – John Deere, American manufacturer
1867 – Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author
1873 – Thomas Andrews, British shipbuilder (RMS Titanic)
1885 – Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel Prize Laureate
1932 – Gay Talese, American author
1956 – Emo Philips, American comedian
1960 – Robert Smigel, American actor and comedian
1960 – James Spader, American actor

Writer's Almanac (Garrison Keillor) for today:

Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined future, of being carried away in streams of promise by a love or a passion so strong that one felt altered forever and convinced that even the smallest particle of the surrounding world was charged with purpose of impossible grandeur; ah, yes, and one would look up into the trees and be thrilled by the wind-loosened river of pale, gold foliage cascading down and by the high, melodious singing of countless birds; those moments, so many and so long ago, still come back, but briefly, like fireflies in the perfumed heat of summer night.

"The Old Age of Nostalgia" by Mark Strand, from Almost Invisible. © Alfred A. Knopf, 2012

It's the birthday ofSinclair Lewis (books by this author), born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota (1885), author ofMain Street (1920)andBabbitt (1922), and the first American to (...more)

It's the birthday of another writer from the prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder (books by this author), born just north of Pepin, Wisconsin (1867), author of the wildly popula (...more)

Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.

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