My sister Jenny found this and sent it my way. This is my great grandmother (my mother’s mother’s mother) Dorothy Stephens (“Gran’ma”), 49, in the Birmingham Post-Herald on September 30, 1955: She’s been gone 15 years or so. She adored my sister and me and doted on us endlessly. One of my very favorite things … Read more
One Sunday morning in 1996, Lea and I first began talking about marriage on the swing in her backyard. Among other things, we discussed non-negotiables. One of them for me was that I intended to raise a family in northern Alabama, and that if she wanted to do something else I probably wasn’t The One. … Read more
Tough to take a bad shot of children in a bubble bath. The boys sure do love the occasional evening bath in Mom & Dad’s room. (photo redacted July 2019)