Happy birthday to the queen of the court (and our family)

Happy birthday to the queen of the court (and our family)

On the day before her 87th birthday, my mom took a tennis lesson. She likes to keep her game sharp. It bothers her that she can’t hit the ball as hard as she did back when she used to run my dad around the court with her strategic baseline, baseline, drop shot, lob, drop shot [...]

Aunt-icipation and a wedding shower hosted by the Little Girls

Aunt-icipation and a wedding shower hosted by the Little Girls

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 [...]