I love art. Crazy, expressive, wild art. Our house is filled with folk art and comical pieces. We used to buy all sorts of paintings and sculptures in the days before Truman. Now we use that money to buy things like groceries and Timberland sandals and jeans that don’t hold up in the knees.
Through the wonder of Facebook, I was reunited with an old college sorority sister, Tina Mackin. It turns out she’s an artist (her Web site is www.SmackinArt.com) and her work is brilliant and colorful and completely fun. She copied me on a portrait of some friends she …read more

Today my family finally got around to posing for a family portrait at a local photographer. They had a deal to lure us in, but we didn’t mind. It’s been a long time since we posed for a family photo. As we sat getting ordered to sit this way, lean in more here, move our heads that way, I realised why genealogists love these photos so much.
Right there, for the entire world to see is the proof of what the next generation inherited and exactly where they got it from. Personally I enjoy looking at family portraits for that …read more