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# Birthday Greetings
- URL: https://mereorthodoxy.com/birthday-greetings/
- Published: 2006-03-16T10:06:01.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-20T21:35:00.000Z
- Description: Birthday Greetings
- Author: Mere Orthodoxy
- Tags: Matthew Lee Anderson, Uncategorized

Special birthday greetings go to my brother Jim today. There's a legend that when Chesterton's younger brother was born, G.K. remarked, "Now I shall have an audience." I wasn't there when my brother was born and our family has no such legend, but as younger brother I have been delighted these last 24 years to fill the role of the laughing, cheering audience.

A [future best-selling novelist](http://decorabilia.blogspot.com/2006/01/gimme-shove-and-im-good-to-go.html?ref=mereorthodoxy.com) and [creative blogging extraordinaire](http://decorabilia.blogspot.com/2006/02/search-me.html?ref=mereorthodoxy.com), Jim also manages to be a [dedicated teacher](http://decorabilia.blogspot.com/2006/03/challenge.html?ref=mereorthodoxy.com) and [husband](http://decorabilia.blogspot.com/2006/02/happy-valentines-melissa.html?ref=mereorthodoxy.com). Did I mention he can be an [excruciatingly precise dialectic partner?](http://decorabilia.blogspot.com/2006/02/truth-behind-exorcism-of-emily-rose.html?ref=mereorthodoxy.com)  
Drop over to Decorabilia and wish Jim a happy birthday. Better yet, bring a plot with you. And buy him some more Sudoko. [I hear he's run out.](http://decorabilia.blogspot.com/2006/03/breaking-habit.html?ref=mereorthodoxy.com)