Six dresses formed perfect metaphors as we filed past on our way into Casey and Juston Johnson's wedding reception Saturday. Strong thread on delicate fabric, they represented love, perseverance, humor, frugality, faith and respect. The dresses belonged to the mothers and grandmothers of the bride and groom, but their stories touched us all. Written in [...]
Had fate been just a little bit kinder and my father in-law a little less polite, we’d all have been at the race track yesterday. We’d vet horses by name, number and jockey silk, and raise our glasses to one of the greatest teams we know, my in-laws, Mary Jane and Vince Biskupic. Married on [...]
Of all my mother in-law's many accomplishments, including the birth and rearing of nine ridiculously accomplished and consistently kind offspring, one of the greatest remains the book she talked her friend Clarence into publishing earlier this year. Poems of Love and Life, published in August of 2014, celebrates an enduring, love-at-first-sight story and the sweet [...]
I own an enchanted mirror, gifted to me by my grandma, who had no use for magic spells. Grandma hung the heavy mirror in her hallway; I don't think she ever glanced in it herself. Someone stuck an "I am a Packer Backer" sticker the lower right corner of the mirror and it stayed there [...]