Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
It seems appropriate that more than 80,000 people will be on hand tomorrow to celebrate my sister Kathy's birthday. There will be beer toasts and brat fries, an F-16 flyover and a chicken dance. The whole Badger band will be at the shindig. I'm told there will be a football game as well. And, in [...]
Today we're celebrating Molly's 18th birthday with a bang, and some scrapes, several bruises, a splint and a CT scan. The poor kid broke her wrist yesterday when her beloved 35-year old bike, a hand me down from a grandpa she never knew, gobbled up her flip flop and sent her hurtling to the ground. [...]
My mother celebrated her birthday this weekend the same way she has for most of the past 74 years, by running pell-mell through the nearest amusement park. Born in the shadow of Coney Island my mom grew up loving roller coasters. Our summer trips to Cincinnati always included a swing through Kings Island, with my [...]