passing the G

I recently made mention of my Aunt Dee, whom I saw over the holiday trip home to Ohio. She is my favorite aunt; the one that makes everything more fun. She is the one crazy enough to make all those freakin’ layers of jello between cream layers for that rainbow jello thingie growing up… (My […]

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holiday dinner

The family got together this evening for the big holiday dinner. The folks, my sisters, my nieces, two aunts, one uncle, a cousin and her son. The food was excellent, of course; my mom’s holiday dinners always are… The highlight for me was my Aunt Dee. (She has always been my favorite…) She is the […]

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the re-gifting of the holidays

When re-gifting takes most of a lifetime, it can end up being a pretty cool thing…My dad’s jewelry box, most likely from some point in the fifties… The cuff-links that remained from the day he gave it to me when I was home this time last year. The only remaining thing of importance that he […]

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