“Poverty sucks,” my friend said to me. From the second story of another friend’s home, with our eyes fixed upon the magazine perfect space, my friend whispered those two little words. (I am going to stop right here and offer an apology for using the word sucks. I realize it may offend some of you.… Continue reading

When each of our daughters was about 5 years old, we had her caricature painted at whichever theme park was our vacation destination that year. And because some destinations proved to be better than others, some hired, yet starving artists were more talented than others. And that resulted in some of the caricatures being much… Continue reading