Birth day, week, month?
I was working at the Indiana Department of Environmental Management when I first learned that a birthday could be more than a day-long event. Dana Reed Wise (no relation) was a beautiful, smart and fun woman who never had a nail unmanicured, a facial blemish or a dress-down day. So when she announced it was her birthday week, I took it in stride as a Dana thing. She was fabulous day in and day out. She was, it turns out, also a trend-setter because everywhere you look now it's someone's birthday week or month. Growing up, birthdays were remarked upon but not celebrated with a bounce-house, balloons and a theme. The them was you were one year older and still the annoying sibling to six other kids in a house with one bedroom. There was cake, for sure. And maybe a party, but when you have six siblings, it's kind of a party crowd every day. I'm not complaining, more explaining that the idea of stretching your birthday beyond the actual day of your birth was not something I