Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
Miss Rachel scored our mornings this June, along with the Wiggles. We moved in a haze of happy chaos, with shoes piled up by the door and extra beds in the living room. We made new friends, tried new foods, planned new adventures and stored lots of new memories. What a great little run! Though [...]
We experienced a festival of kindness this weekend as we gathered to celebrate our daughter Katherine’s marriage to Ed Rhee. When our crotchety old lawn mower broke down a few days before we hosted the wedding on our property Up North, our friends Nicolle and Ron loaded up theirs and delivered it right to us. [...]
When your favorite things involve squishy mud and ripe smells and bugs, it can be a tricky thing to introduce them to the next generation. Fortunately, our granddaughter loves them too. Whew! She trumped through the woods like a champ, listened intently when her Aunt Molly gave her a mycology lesson, sunk her purple-painted toes [...]
Josh, a poet and photographer, offered to take free portraits of his fellow Iowa Writers' Workshop graduates. He told them he wanted to do it so, when their books came out, he could be a part of them. That's the supportive environment my daughter Molly found when she came to Iowa City in 2023. She [...]
When my kids were little, any one of us could call out “family hug!” and the whole gang would come running from various rooms in the house to join in the big squeeze. Our youngest daughter’s graduation this weekend felt exactly like that. Molly invited us, “Family hug!” and we all came running from various [...]