Today's the birthday of ...- Dylan Thomas born, in Swansea, Wales (1914)
- Sylvia Plath, born in Boston, Massachusetts (1932)
- Maxine Hong Kingston, born Maxine Hong in Stockton, California (1940) and
- Zadie Smith, born in London (1975)
Facts from The Writer's Almanac, which sends you amazing nuggets of writerly information and a daily poem. You can hear the daily radio programme online, presented by author Garrison Keillor. Great fun.
Was reading midnitelily before I came here. Nice new look. :)
ReplyDeleteHappy (Belated) Birthday Sharon. :) Must say the theme looks much better than the one before this. Next on our wishlist would be permalinks for your posts. :)
ReplyDeleteHAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday!
ReplyDeletehappy birthday! =]
ReplyDeletethanks very much all
ReplyDeletewas going to keep the birthday quiet till someone revealed it!
nizam - thanks for your comments re the look. hadn't thought of putting a permalink .... a permalink means you can easily grab the URL even when post is archived, right? and i guess i have to tweak my settings to put it there
Happy (belated) birthday to you,
ReplyDeleteHappy (belated) birthday to you,
Happy (belated) biiiirthday dear Shaaaaaron,
Haaaaappy (belated) biiiiirthdaaaay tooooo yoooooooooouuuuu....
And many moooooooooore....
"I'm in good company, huh?"
ReplyDeleteNot that kind of company with Sylvia Plath, I hope.
*cough*
I'd offer to come round with some gummy bear cupcakes and my copy of The Writer's Notebook, but I've been ill with the stomach flu, so your little pressies will have to wait.
Happy birthday, Sharon! Love the new look too!
ReplyDeletesoory to hear you've been ill, chet. do take care of yourself and many thanks for your kindness.
ReplyDeletethanks jordan, thanks ted
By the way, you already have a permalink. It's just that it's not labelled as one. The permanent links are the timestamps at the end of your posts.
ReplyDeleteYou have to edit your template to do this; just simple changes.
I changed my template to embed the permanent link on the post titles, and also in a separately labeled link at the bottom.
You also share your birfday wif John Cleese, Jayne Kennedy, Cleo Laine, Emily Post, and Theodore Roosevelt, among others.
ReplyDeletehappy birthday, Sharon
ReplyDeleteHave a silly birthday ! :)
ReplyDeleteHappy belated birthday love. See ya tomorrow.
ReplyDeletehaha - thanks for the b'day greetings ...
ReplyDeletemachinist - thanks a lot for telling me that - i didn't know! when i need a link i click on comments and just remove the word "comments" from the address
Sharon - you already have permalinks to your entries. Just click on the time stamp for a particular enry to get to the permalink.
ReplyDeleteHappy belated birthday!
ReplyDeleteBtw: Sylvia Plath is hot.
Hot, but not here anymore.
ReplyDeletetq chet
ReplyDeleteswifty - was just reading about how we don't have a lot of her poetry 'cos dear hubby decided it shouldn't see light of day
I didn't know, but I hope what you received in the mail may qualify for a birthday present.
ReplyDeleteCheers!
Oops, sorry if it was me letting the bib out of the book bag. :) But I was informed of it at Midnite Lily's first!
ReplyDelete*points virtual fingers*