Today my aunt in Miami wrote to me to let me know she will be coming to town in June and we should get together. I think I might have been 13 or so the last time I saw her, so I have changed quite a lot.

My family is sparse and spread all over the country, so when someone actually comes out to visit me, it’s a pretty big deal. She also told me that I have a half-uncle and half-aunt I never knew about, and that the uncle lives in the Bay Area and is an aeronautical engineer at Stanford. Wow huh. He seems to be somewhat of a distant relation, since I only found out he exists today, but my aunt says we should still meet each other. Fine by me! Hmm. Uncle Brad.

My aunt is pretty cool. I think we are probably a lot alike, which is weird since we have had so little face time, but not weird since we are blood relatives.