Former Journalist Hot-Shot Faces Birthday With Courage

David, can it be true? Can the person I helped teach to catch a baseball really be 49? (Seriously, that was a lot of fun last summer. You should have mentioned you couldn’t catch earlier.)
Usually the 4th kid gets hand-me-downs so I want you to know you’re the first of the McDonald children to receive a blog post instead of an actual gift.
I love you, man. It’s cold in Minnesota right now, so have a safe 49th birthday. Here’s a picture of you when you used to roam the world on assignment for Reuters, etc…. Now we just worry that you’ll wander off.