Apparently, a birthday is supposed to last one day. I have reviewed the paperwork and rejected that proposal. My birthday is September 6, but beginning tomorrow, September 3, I am once again commencing what I have decided to call my bureaucratic birthday celebration: a wonderfully overextended period in which I give away as much of my published work as Amazon will allow me to, put a few other books at 99 cents, and encourage people to read, write, experiment, argue with ideas