Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
I sent my family members a lovely ornament, which, as it turns out, commemorated our family trip to Kilkenny. Except, none of us, save our almost son in-law Ed, has ever been to Kilkenny, and he went a dozen years ago. Thanks to my creeping farsightedness, I misread the ornament when I ordered it, cheerfully [...]
The real gift of any birthday is the celebrant's presence on this old earth, and the precious opportunity to honor it together. And, if the birthday boy happens to choose a classic Up North Supper Club for his birthday party, well, then, everybody wins. We got to celebrate our daughter Katherine's fiance Ed's birthday Wednesday [...]
We got to hang with the people in our neighborhood Monday night at a block party more than five years in the making. In the time since our last block party, families got bigger, new faces moved in, little peanuts grew up, couples married, babies came and my husband Vince and I officially became, well, [...]
In a perfect world, all of the people I love would crowd around my mother in-law's hand-me-down dining room table every Christmas Eve, holding hands and singing fahoo fores in matching Christmas jammies while fat snowflakes floated harmlessly to the ground outside our windows and the exact right presents sat beautifully wrapped under the tree. [...]