Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
I can't take time in a bottle, but for a few minutes on a Monday afternoon I popped a Jim Croce tape into an old 8-track tape player and took myself back to 1972. To my shock, that old relic fired right up, which proved to be somewhat problematic for a hyper-nostalgic person like myself. [...]
Tracey Bice ruined me. I tell that story all the time. It involves some really late nights in a newsroom, a Legend of Sleepy Hollow character, and the greatest copy editor I’ve ever known. I got to celebrate the 40th anniversary of that story and a whole bunch of others this weekend at Marquette University. [...]
Like the child who planted it, our pepper plant has moments of glorious triumph. It rises from unconventional roots, stretched surprisingly deep against a cement floor. Peppers are meant to be seasonal fruit, but this one weathers all kinds of storms with a stubbornness that both impresses and confounds. Last year, we thought it had [...]
We blessed the vines our son Vinnie and his wife Danni planted this weekend in a ceremony so simple and yet so touching I’m warmed by it still. In the ancient Georgian tradition, ten times we raised our glasses as the sun set on one of those gorgeous, productive days that end in sweaty, tired [...]
Our newest family member lives thousands of miles from all of us. Still, before she hits her two month birthday, she’ll have met nearly the whole immediate clan. We are a determined relay team of baby lovers. In fact, even as her grandpa’s plane took off following his stint, little Laura June’s Aunt Molly’s plane [...]
