Now that is a big surprise

In the last weeks leading up to my dear wife Karen’s every-other-year family reunion, niece Stormy kept teasing us all on the group Facebook page about a big surprise. When we all pulled into the tri-plex on a Monday, her mom Lynne said Stormy and Brad would arrive by car a few hours later for…

There are faces I’ll remember

It didn’t take long to know that this trip from Syracuse to Estes Park, Colorado, for my dear wife Karen’s family reunion was a success. All it took was one look at my beloved’s face. And the face of her sister Jana when we walked up to the place she and her family were staying.…

A family resemblance can sneak up and floor you

Sometimes the pieces to complete a startling vision sit pages apart in the scrapbook of your mind. For all my life, I’ve been comfortable with the premise that out of us three kids, my youngest sister, Dory, had the most family resemblance to either of our parents. My sister Fran, the middle one, kind of…