Dear Tim, Happy anniversary. We’ve been married for eleven years now. I was thinking this morning about what makes us work. After all, we’ve got a good thing going. I started to make a list. But then the list got really long, and it didn’t seem wise to spend our entire anniversary writing down all…Read More
Family
Dad’s Memorial Day Tour
The following is a portion of the foreword I wrote for my great-grandmother’s memoir, In Pursuit of Leo. This holiday weekend, I hope you take time to tell stories, look at old photos, and remember the sacrifice of those who left home to secure our country’s future and the dedication of those who vigilantly waited…Read More
Tears In a Bottle
Maybe you’ve been there before. That moment of complete exhaustion and quiet, when your eyes turn from pouring out tears with the force of Niagara Falls to resembling the crustiness of the Sahara Desert. My earliest recollection of crying this hard was when I was seven-years old, and Danny Helms, my best friend in the…Read More