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Nancy Gibbs got it right. People have short memories: when Obama stressed the fact that the economy would take months, even years, to fix, most people seemed to get it--at the time. Now because he couldn't work miracles in a few months, he is being condemned.
When my husband asked how I wanted to celebrate my birthday this year - the first anniversary of my 49th birthday, he called it - I was at a loss to answer. No surprises, I said; even our routines already supply plenty of those. No extravagance: we're still in a recession...
Ten felt very big - those two digits, one so straight and mature, one so round and promising. And 13, which made it official: childhood is memory now; life is PG-13. Sixteen was sweet; 18 was freedom, a launch that in those days could legally include a champagne toast. Your...
But at some point, that all changes, once time is not sliced into semesters anymore. How different really is 27 from 26, or 42 from 41? The journey curves and loops; your age in years seems to detach from your age in experience. You get fired at 32 and feel...
I mean, that happened in 1982. It's now the year 2010. Everybody knows what I did. This is just repeating old stuff. It's like, I once had a girlfriend called Mary when I was 14. Move on.