Making a Thing

… is what daughter Kit calls it when she texts whatever she’s working on. Kit has been Making a Thing since she could toddle. It started with 2D scribbles before pre-school. Soon she would cover dozens of pages of paper with detailed little characters. Her preschool teacher Miss Patty was so excited about the dinosaur […]

Betty in Red

May 24th was my mother-in-law’s 91st birthday—the first one that her sons and her Texas grandkids have spent without her. The last survivor of  her parents, siblings, and husband Oliver, Betty Jane Jeanneret Pfeil passed away on September 25th, 2013.  I met Betty not long after my husband David and I began dating. The days of […]