HBO Blogosphere — 3.8.10

I have been blessed this past week by starting my 38th year of life. When you’re little, birthdays are a big deal. It’s your one day to be the center of attention. Your day and yours alone. But after you get to a certain age, birthdays aren’t such a big deal. Dinner, a few presents, cake, and maybe a candle or two. If that. But the day comes and goes with little fanfare. I spent many years like that. But a few years ago, I decided to make a bigger deal of my birthday. It still might just be dinner and cake and a few presents, but in my mind it is my special day. A day to reflect on the past year and look forward to the next/ A Butterfly Moment . More here .

• Poor Alex /Accidental Rabbit Trails
• Academy Awards: It’s not a waste of time /A Family Runs Through It
• Riding the insurance train /From A Simple Mind
• Oscar 2010 Prime Beauties: All over 40 /Prime Beauty
• And how does your indoor garden grow?/ Slight Detour
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Question: Do you still celebrate birthdays with flare?

• Easter’s coming /Bay Views
• 2 shelves down, 4 to go /Bent’s Beer Garden
• A Word A Day: semi-quaver /Community Comment
• Delusional leaders , and: Eh?/ Dogwalk Musings
• Spring break at Steamboat Rock /Gathering Around the Table
• Spring has sprung /JeanC’s Cat House & Shooting Gallery
• 3BT: Illness and time and learning and teaching, alien at Trader Joes, and Carl’s Jr. cures all /Kellogg Bloggin’
• Not Me Monday (pregnancy edition)/ Midnight Marauder
• Overheard /Rants, Raves, & Random Thoughts
• Hesitation /Tumblewords

HBO Numbers (for week of Feb. 28 - March 6): 51,533/30,524