When your family lives whole coasts apart, you take your time with them in great, grateful gulps. I’m still chugging. I’ve enjoyed the crowded tables full of chatty people and the quiet mornings with a baby so amiable she spends her days in a swaddle of shear delight. For the record, our little New Jersey [...]
We celebrated Vince Lombardi's famous quote last night in the best way we know how. “There are three things that are important to every man in this locker room," he said. "His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In that order.” Last night we took advantage of the last preseason game to thank [...]
"Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life." Albert Einstein said it and we did it this past weekend, a bunch of precious family members mustering for joy. That our beautiful land of life involved patchy ice and unseasonable wind chills did nothing to dampen the enthusiasm of our guests, who blew in [...]
While the family reunion's source perched perennially on paper at the top of an enormous family tree taped for the occasion to the living room wall, its soul sat regally in twin chairs across the hall.Two grandmothers, between them mothers to 17 children, held court Saturday night and from their amiable stories emerged the fascinating [...]
We are genetically unsuited for crafting. Hailing from a direct line of butchers, coal miners, milkmen and telephone linemen, we come from people whose strong hands wrapped comfortably around cleavers, chisels, steel and spikes. We've neither the patience nor the daintiness necessary for beautiful scrapbooking, embroidery or etching. My sweet little niece and I once aborted [...]