Swell Funerals, Family, and Chicago. Plus #BookReview of The Alchemy of Noise by @LorraineDWilke #LiteraryFiction #humor
Chicago and a swell funeral brought us together. I was in college in Chicago when my mother told me one …
Tag Archives: Family
If the Mary Sue fits… #humor #sisters #writing
In a recent post here, I used a trope shortcut by naming a character Marysue. My sister Marysue was not …
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ lol mother i am a millennial. #humor #family
Apparently, I don’t know how to share information. When I suggested that Daughter #2 call her friend to check on …
Happy #FathersDay to the fixers and the keepers #humor
Although it starts with a piece I wrote years ago (you can tell by the reference to our VCR), this …
The most important thing. So far… #humor #life @ksbethkgmailcom
“what is the most important thing you’ve learned in your life so far?” My blogging friend KSBETH asks this question …
Merry 12 Days of Christmahannukwanzadan Solstice! Day 3: New friends, old family #humor
Though it’s been said many times, many ways… Lucky me—friends and family are what I’m grateful for today! (Especially since …
Summer car trip with the family? Read this first… #humor #family #ThrowbackThursday
I would be a lot more judgmental, but I too have spawned. There are some cities—and okay, and a few states. And maybe Mexico…—to which I will never be able to return. But I have learned a few things…
#London Part 3: Hell, sleeping Victorians, or buried alive? Plus #BookReview APPRENTICED TO MY MOTHER by @geofflepard #humor #Memoir
[MY APOLOGIES TO MY NEIGHBOR PETER AND TO SISTER MARY SIXTH GRADE: my friend Peter informed me (correctly) that in …
Hundreds of Tiny Threads: #BookReview of The Howarth Family Trilogy by @JudithBarrow77 #Family #HistFic #TuesdayBookBlog
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the …
Of #Family Trees, Swell #Funerals, and South Side #Chicago. #humor
I was trying to come up with a good intro for Judith Barrow’s incredible generational family series about the Howarth …
