• Life In General

    The One Where I Almost Choked To Death

    This is me….celebrating my birthday and Christmas many years ago.   I’m a Christmas baby.  Earlier today, my older brother would say to me “wouldn’t it be weird if you died on the day you were born?”  He had a reason for saying this to me. Let me go back a few hours….to around 1:30 when we sat down to Christmas dinner.  I was sitting at the “adult” table with my sister, her husband, my younger brother, his wife and my step father.  Dinner is served….everyone is digging in…and the conversation is flowing.  I can’t tell you what we were discussing because a few bites into my meal I suddenly was having a…