Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
We took our little West Orange bagel to Lambeau Field on Saturday and bought her a New Jersey. That her jersey bore the last name and playing number of her Great-Grandpa Ron and she wore it as we introduced her to his Hall of Fame football made the day extra special. She also got to [...]
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 [...]
My Dad’s first grandchild was born in a city almost four hours away from him. Shortly after, my mom started a graduate school program not too far from our apartment. This meant, among other things, she got to see new baby Charlie once a week. My dad found this whole situation untenable. Dad came up [...]
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 [...]