I turned 27 yesterday. I’m now 27/100ths of a century. Been driving for ten years and voting for nine. And while the big 2-7 has yet to open any new doors, my family still was kind enough to celebrate.

Take, for example, this email from my grandmother:

Happy Birthday. I am sending 2 E-mails because I have you in my address book twice–and the a.book is so narrow I can-t read the addresses(only the names)and I can not make it wider. Your Aunt Laura came over and did it once–and now it is back to very narrow again. As you know I have less than a kindergarten handle on this xzxxzx machine;

But Happy Birthday.

I have tremendous respect for any senior citizen prowling the Internet. And I wish more of them would e-mail me.