Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
Our 14 years as Appleton North High School parents passed as quickly as a lightning strike. Those days were so filled with music and mayhem, theater and drama, football and fun that we felt like we took our oldest son Charlie to his high school orientation one day, and attended our youngest daughter Molly's graduation [...]
Had I known how my family would expand in such heart swelling ways, I might have been less wistful about each childhood’s swift passage. The milestones that took them away -- first steps, first day of school, college, that first real job, marriage -- actually made our family more whole. I know that now. I [...]