Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
We've been calling my sisters the Little Girls for more years than they'd care for me to repeat. Born three years apart, the two youngest girls in our family shared a room (and even, for a few years, one double bed). They wore matching clothes until Kathy, the older of the two, put her foot [...]
Saturday afternoon I stood in Jones Park listening to Dan Rodriguez play a set when I got a message on the family text chain. My sister Kathy had sent us a picture of herself with Mile of Music artist Nathan Graham. She was pretty proud of that picture, which her husband Keith snapped on their [...]
More than almost anything else, my mother loathes butter. Her standard breakfast order -- dry toast, crisp bacon, eggs scrambled hard -- is a mandate not a request. Should butter appear on her plate, she will lose her appetite for the entire meal and the offending restaurant will face her non-negotiable butter boycott. So, when [...]
Because we were young and besotted with him, my husband Vince and I remember exactly how our oldest son greeted the world on the day he came into it. "Hi guy," Vince leaned over and said as the nurses swaddled his son. Charlie turned his head, looked right at his dad and smiled. We imagined [...]
This weekend I had the great pleasure of spending time with the Molly B and Me family. Â As a member of the large Biskupic family, I am associated with many subgroups. Â Â I am proud to be a member of the peas and carrot club. Â I am allowed to read the coveted green and red pepper [...]