Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
It's sometimes astonishing how people's full circle moments intersect in ways that make you wonder who's up there drawing the Venn Diagram of our lives. For instance, my sister Jenny has been working on a book with Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Bruce Perry that explores the lasting impact of trauma. The book is called "What [...]
Way back in 1977, I wrote a fan letter to a favorite author of mine asking her when the next book in her series would be out. An embarrassingly committed bookworm, I'd plowed through all 14 books in the Beany Malone series and I wanted to know when Lenora Mattingly Weber would be coming out [...]
In the wee hours of a summer morning back in 1985, I returned to my college apartment after an evening out and found a two-paged Post-it note stuck to my door. The note did not surprise me as that was how we communicated in the pre-cellphone era. I was struck, however, by its form. Deep [...]
Four characters form the basis for Charlie Mackesy's extraordinary book The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse. Four characters also currently inhabit my home and help me define the word family. Each of us, like you, depends on kindness and bravery to power us through our day. Also, each of us loves cake. [...]
Some stories are more layered than the number of pages that contain them. Such is the case with this one, in which a 57-year old library book from an obsolete grade school makes its way into my hands in the middle of an Appleton Police Department retirement party. “I’ve been saving this for you,” said [...]