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 [...]
They've sported their colors at our family ping pong tournament for two years now, but the "Hit and Get the Hell Out of the Way" duo has been a team for a lot longer than that. They buddied up early, almost as soon as they met. My sister Kathy and her high school friends visited [...]
For a little perspective on Sunday's Packer game, you only needed to look for the right heroes on the field. I got to stand next to one of them during the National Anthem. My sister Kathy, a 12-year cancer survivor who has been stage four for the past eight years, has been wanting to hold [...]
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 [...]
My sister Kathy spent the week leading up to her 54th birthday helping my mom and I finalize details for a trip Kathy isn't even taking. She will be driving us to the airport, though, and picking us up, and hosting us the night before our flight. She's basically our personal Uber/Travel Agent/Concierge Service. I [...]