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Throwing tomatoes with love

My mom and dad, fall 2011

My dad once joked he met my mom at a Young Republicans meeting. I believed him for years, until my mother intervened and told me the true story. They met at a professional singles function when my dad tripped over her foot. She says it was an […]

Great, grand, father

This is Jay. He was my mom’s mom’s dad. He lived in California and worked for the Los Angeles Times.

He was married to my clever, happy great-grandmother, Clara. They divorced and he married Berthe, a tiny French woman I towered over before I was out of elementary school. I’ve posted photos of Berthe […]

Still snug

I opened The Mitten and began to read.

Four of the kids crowded next to me on the couch. A fifth joined when he heard the word badger, his current favorite animal.

“I love this story…” Ryley’s whisper wove under and over and in between the fibers of Jan Brett’s words.

White […]