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 [...]
Four times between third grade and sixth, the authorities at my niece Erin’s school hauled her and her parents to the principal’s office due to her subversive behavior. Her offense? Excessive reading. The same school district that tried to tamp down on her love of literature by restricting her access to the books she loved [...]
This year, we ran the 35th annual Sole Burner 5k in gratitude for sunny days, bouncy shoes, rolling hills and sweet family members. Mostly, though, we ran in thanksgiving for the amazing strides events like this have brought. Thank you to the American Cancer Society for every dollar it directs to the prevention and treatment [...]
I have seen the future of the American toilet, my friends, and let me tell you it is spectacular. Heated seats, remote controls, touchless flushing, night lighted lids...oh my! I only stopped in the Kohler Design Center Monday afternoon because my niece wanted me to join her and she’s very cute. Until I walked through [...]
From her stoop in the center of a sophisticated city, my niece Erin has carved out a delightful little corner of Mayberry. She and her neighborhood gang enjoy a living-room-forts, frontyard-warter-balloon-fight, Saturday-sleepover, come-home-when-the-streetlights-turn-on kind of childhood, while all around them Chicago hums. They each have the necessary kind of scheduled activities that keep their parents [...]