It started small, with some onion sets and a few tomato plants, back in 1987, the year we moved into our first house in a new development 35 miles west of Chicago. By the time we moved back into the city about four years later, the space my ex lovingly
Month: April 2013
We’re Never Home Alone
Note: On Fridays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. Perhaps it was a Scout campout, or a sleep-over at a friend’s house. Or maybe there was a family crisis your parent or parents had to attend to out of… Continue reading We’re Never Home Alone
We Are Family
We were born three months and one week and sixty-five miles apart, my cousin Cindy and I. We married 361 days apart. And yet, we have always been different. Cindy’s father–one of my mother’s younger brothers–and his family moved to the South
The Greatest Banquet of All
Note: On Fridays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. We’ve heard a lot about food in the Friday Easter season readings so far. We’ve read about the time the risen Christ invited the disciples to breakfast after he had… Continue reading The Greatest Banquet of All