Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
If it weren't for Jeff Askew bringing juggling balls to Thanksgiving, I might never have experienced the prolonged frustration and momentary triumph of tossing three balls in the air. We wondered, during those waning days of November, whether juggling might end up being one of the six new sports I intended to learn. "Is juggling [...]
With one week to spare, I completed my challenge to learn six new sports in celebration of my 60th birthday. My final sport was boxing. Fittingly, I wrapped up my challenge exactly as I had begun it -- with a whole lot of sweat, and with my good and game-for-anything friend Jill. I was too [...]
My friend Tami introduced me to pickleball last week and it became the fifth sport in my quest to learn six new sports this year. Until last Friday, my husband and I were pretty much the only two people we know who had never picked up a pickleball paddle. Even my 86-year old mother, who [...]
My daughter Katherine scooched herself into this old world less than an hour after I arrived at the hospital to give birth to her. She has always striven to make her schedule efficient and her mother’s life easier. I am grateful to say she succeeds on both counts every day. Both an empathetic middle child [...]
On February 25, 1964 Cassius Clay (soon to be Muhammad Ali) beat the heavily-favored Sonny Liston by technical knockout to become the heavyweight champion of the world. Also, just about 1,300 miles north of that fight, my husband was born. Such an auspicious day! And, it doesn't end there. Some of the coolest people I [...]