Mom's Night in Jail
It was my first night alone in decades. All four of my children — yes, four; we learned about birth control later — were either grown or sleeping over at each other's places. The house was enormous…
Read the story →Stories from the Heart
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Real moments, real memories — told in Ted & Linda's own words.
No Guardrails
The map made it look simple enough. A few squiggly lines indicating switchbacks, then a long, reassuring straightaway to the main highway. Maybe ten miles total. The kind of route that looks like a…
Read the story →I Did Not Kick the Teacher
The school started kids at age two, and Athena was enrolled the day after her second birthday. It was a fabulous place — Allie had gone there — and everyone felt good about…
Read the story →I Guess I Need to Report to Duty
Japan had not declared war. It was a surprise…
Read the story →Mom's Night in Jail
It was my first night alone in decades. All four of my children — yes, four; we learned about birth control later — were either grown or sleeping over at each other's places. The house was enormous…
Read the story →No Guardrails
The map made it look simple enough. A few squiggly lines indicating switchbacks, then a long, reassuring straightaway to the main highway. Maybe ten miles total. The kind of route that looks like a…
Read the story →The Help
It was 1947, and my father was in the…
Read the story →The Morning Everything Changed
A Family's Story of Pearl Harbor — As Told by…
Read the story →The Sphere
I won't even go into my dad's World War II stories. Just know that he and the men he served with — they saw things you and I can never…
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