Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
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 [...]
In a contentious world full of bluster and misinformation, I'm glad we still have libraries. There, a thousand stories and a million real facts welcome all comers. You can find both education and entertainment among those stacks. And, if you don't see what you're looking, just summon a librarian. That's what I did when I [...]
The glee bubbled up the moment my Hoka-clad foot hit the sand. It always does when I get to be where the water meets the earth. And this time I had the whole, glorious beach to myself. I took a tentative step north, and then another, and, then I ran. I use the word “run” [...]
Seventy-five years ago, my mother asked her parents for a tennis racquet to celebrate her 11th birthday. She talked her friend Bill Klare, whose birthday fell the day after hers, into asking for one too. For some reason unknown to either, their parents agreed. “Nobody knew anything about tennis,” my mom said. “I have no [...]
Grandma Peggy had the best walkup song. Not just because, in the whole, celebrated history of the Kostelnik Family Ping Pong Tournament, no one has ever had a walk up song. No, Grandma Peggy’s was the best because she and her partner/grandson Vinnie executed it with such flair. They rose above the wool fibers of [...]