Davy Knittle's Page

My family has few rituals. Moreover, my family is a nuclear maximum of three people, and usually just two at a time. I'm lucky to have a family that's expanding along lines drawn of other than blood relations, but genetically it's just me and my parents.

Maybe it's because my family is small or because there aren't many holidays we celebrate, but we have an unusually small number of rituals, and the ones that we have are themselves idiosyncratic.

For example, my half birthday…