(photos by Amy Konieczka Photography) For as long as I can remember, I’ve loved stories – to read them, to tell them, to share them, to soak them up like the last bit of sauce in a delicious bowl of shrimp scampi, to store them up and keep them close for days that just need […]
“Mother!” she yells, her frustration with me all too apparent in her tone. Sitting in the overstuffed leather chair across from her bed, I turn my head slightly so that I’m out of her line of sight and roll my eyes. “DON’T ROLL YOUR EYES AT ME!” oops. I sigh that exasperated, exhausted sigh of […]
Last night, I had dinner with one of my favorite people in the world. Becky and I have been friends for over a decade. Whenever we get together, there is always so much to talk about; our lives have followed very similar courses. We worked for the same company when we met, we got married […]
In the dark, Steve reaches across our bed for my hand and says softly, “I don’t want to scare you but there is a bat on the other side of the dresser.” Because my mind can’t quite process the events of the last few days, I think he is talking about a live bat. My […]
I’m driving home from dropping the girls off at school and to my right, I see a beautiful linear rainbow, shooting down out of a storm cloud. It is a the fifth or sixth rainbow I’ve seen in the last three days. My eyes start to fill with tears and I begin to wonder if […]
