on halves

In honor of my half birthday, a list of the cool people who are also having a half birthday today (or would be, if they weren't dead):

Dr. Seuss
Mikhail Gorbachev
Lou Reed
Tom Wolfe
Jon Bon Jovi
Karen Carpenter
Edgar Bowers
Sam Houston
John Irving
several popes
Kurt Weill
Sholem Aleichem
David Greenglass (the spy who leaked the atomic secrets)
several leaders of foreign countries
one Osmond
Edward Condon (the guy who thought up quantum mechanics)
Chris Martin
several congressmen from midwestern states
& two of my lovely professors, Debra Taylor Bourdeau & Karen Graf


See you peeps again in March.