A handmade card I received with my chocolate chip pancakes set the tone for my mid-week, mid-ish decade, mid-century birthday. "Have a good ball of love," it read and, lucky me, I did. My ball of love grew like an April snowball in Wisconsin, shaped by pudgy fingers and delivered with joy. By the end [...]
As soon as I was old enough to understand what a family was, I knew that I was grateful for mine. I recognized pretty early on that not every father would sneak his kid out of summer camp for a pep talk and an ice cream cone, and not every mother would drive over to [...]
“Her picture’s in the papers now, and life’s a piece of cake.” - Ogden Nash, 1936 Oh really, Mr. Nash? A piece of cake? Such condescension rolls naturally from a man who probably never tried to make a homemade-strawberry-Belle-from-Beauty-and-the-Beast cake. I did and, though the incident happened a full 60 hours ago, I still feel like [...]