Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
In most cases, the pictures are more than a half century old and the photographer who took them has been gone for 30 years. But, unearthed just recently, they offer an astonishing gift. My dad did more than document our childhood when he shot the slides, film, photos and, later videotape. He showed us what [...]
I can't tell you how cranky my mom and I were when my sister Jenny sent us on an errand earlier this week, and how grateful I am for the magical rabbit hole it sent me down. The errand was to pick up a jump drive containing 2,254 photo files from slides my dad had [...]
I saw a perfect tree the other day on a quick scurry through town and it took my breath away. Sometimes, in the midst of gray days and pounding heads and worries you can’t escape, you just have to look up. I happened to glance over at the exact moment the sun warmed a proud, [...]
Beyond his talent and the way he could tell a whole story with a single image, NFL Hall of Fame photographer Vern Biever was a really nice guy. One day several years ago, my mom received an unsolicited package from him and opened it to find several prints of my dad during his playing years [...]
How fortunate that throughout the ages of reason, December's magic prevails. You see it everywhere -- on modest lawns brilliant with holiday displays, in the twinkle of a crossing guard's eye, within the arms of a high school Santa Claus, in a tidy stall of a brand new stable. December's magic rises like the moon [...]