My little brother’s birthday is today. (He’s also technically not little anymore because he has multiple feet on me but, whatever.) His name is Sam.
Meaning someday when my future children sing “Yankee Doodle Boy” it will be factually accurate with only one small change.
I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy,
A Yankee Doodle, do or die;
A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam,
Born on theFourthThird of July.
See? Accurate.
Gotta love that.
So a very happy birthday to my sort of old baby brother and have a wonderful 4th tomorrow, US friends!

Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.



