Happy Birthday!
Today my mom turns 62. Next week I turn 42. This is one of the first years in a long time when we will be together on both of our birthdays.
Gram and Saara on our recent trip. Looking pretty good for 62. (and 12!)
![](http://www.pktaylor.com/images/gramandsaara.jpg)
I, on the other hand, tend to look a bit odd, like in this photo taken while we were exploring the Chacoan ruins.
![](http://www.pktaylor.com/images/pkruins.jpg)
Somehow, I have very much lost touch with my age. I don't feel 42, whatever 42 is supposed to feel like. Since so many people say, I don't feel 40 something, or 50 something, presumably our impressions of what 42 or 52 is supposed to feel like are wrong. 42 feels not so much different from, oh, 34.