Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
It isn't that Stan Brown was cavalier about his courtship with Barbara Frankel , it's just that she beat him to the punch. Just one month after the two started dating, Barbara announced that they were engaged. That was news to Stan, who was stretching out on the living room floor of Barbara's house when [...]
Yesterday, not coincidentally on International Women's Day, I texted with one of the strongest women I know. My sister in-law Carol, who received a Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching in 2019, has been rising to the biggest challenge in her life with grace, poise, poetry and love. Her husband John, a [...]
I’m not sure what Neal Rabas wrote in the note he passed to his eighth-grade crush, but it must have been pretty good because she’s still smiling today. In fact, Neal and Amy Rabas, two of the smiliest people I know, will celebrate their 32nd wedding anniversary in November. They have two grown children, Evan, [...]
He says her smile lights up a room. She loves his optimism, good looks and great singing voice. Together they have seen the “in sickness and in health” portion of their wedding vows challenged many times throughout their 13-year marriage, but Tori Thurston Burton and Jerry Burton still seize and share an impressive amount of [...]
By all accounts, Bob Abitz’s first love was racing. He even promptly broke up with his high school girlfriend when she told him he needed to choose between her and his race car. His next love, though, found him shortly thereafter and, for nearly 50 years, Bob’s devotion to his wife Lynn and the family [...]