Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
In the days leading up to her 84th birthday, my mom completed three crosswords each morning, raced us to the Wordle, swam every afternoon, negotiated an auto repair, wrote a poem, played tennis with her feisty friends, took her necessary daily walk and toasted the sunset each evening with a nice glass of oaky chardonnay. [...]
It's always fun to celebrate a 21st birthday, that raucous rite of passage into American adulthood. When your path to the party takes you through such unimaginable places, that the milestone can feel like a miracle, you get to celebrate with extra joy. That's how we felt last night as we toasted Jojo the Pizza [...]
If we've learned anything these past few years, it's to seize as much joy out of our days as we can. And nobody carpes their diem more than our nephew Mr. Traveain Finley. This weekend, we got to help him celebrate his 35th birthday, which turned out to be a great big kettle boiling over [...]
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 [...]
Our daughter Molly regularly makes magic from the mundane. Armed with her grandpa’s vintage wicker tackle box, she forages much of her food from around her neighborhood. What makes this habit of hers even more impressive is that she lives in the heart of one of the midwest’s largest cities. She finds extraordinary treasures in [...]