Longer by Dan Fogelberg

Dan Fogelberg is one of my all-time favourite singer/songwriters. And "The Innocent Age" is one of my all-time favourite albums.

I flicking though the radio stations while driving in my car yesterday with my ten year old when I came across "Longer".

My daughter wanted to keep going but I insisted on listening to the song. It's an absolute beauty, and his biggest hit apparently.

I was moved by the following lines, given his untimely death in 2007 at the age of only 56:

Through the years as the fire starts to mellow
Burning lines in the book of our lives
Though the binding cracks
And the pages start to yellow

Here is the song accompanied by a beautiful set of photos taken by his wife Jean:

Happy Birthday to Me

Per my previous post, I enjoyed a very special birthday recently.

Once you get past 21, all birthdays that are divisible by 10 take on a special significance.

This birthday was divisible by 10 and a large selection of other numbers!

My sister helped by telling me that the Romans would have called it L.

L doesn't sound so bad.

Here's looking forward to the next L years!

A life summed up in cake!

It took Walter Isaacson 571 pages to summarise Steve Jobs' life.

It took Stephen Fry 425 pages to summarise 8 years of his life in "the fry chronicles".

It took the "the perfectionist confectionist" one cake to summarise my life!

It featured me at my desk, looking at a birthday card from my kids on my laptop, and dining on King crisps, wine and Toblerone.

Absolutely uncanny!