A quarter-century of change

Today is the Drama King's 25th birthday. I must admit that for 24 of those years, I never knew what was coming at me. And a few of those years, I wasn't sure he was going to live to see the next one. This has been a banner year for him, one in which he grew up in ways I hoped for but never believed possible. This was the year he figured it out. This was the year he got his own car and health insurance. This was the year he baked cookies and brought them to my office -- just because. This