Siblings

An Embarrassment of Riches

Me and my siblings, in birth order, beginning with the oldest, Jim, on the left, then Chris, Ken, Juli, Brian, me and Mary.

I was just reminded that today is National Siblings Day. I never remember the date, but facebook always pops up the memories, which reminds me. With so many siblings, I had the opportunity to develop a lot of different sibling relationships from an early age.

Five of them (Jim, Chris, Ken, Juli and Brian) are older than me, all six of us having come in relatively rapid…