Tag: memories

• To Tree or Not to Tree: Making New Christmas Traditions

  A quintessential piece of the Christmas season as I was growing up was our family’s annual trip to the tree farm. My dad, having brought along his own saw, would lie on the ground and hack down whatever tree his girls (my mom, my sister, and I) had chosen. Once separated from its stump, he’d…
• Making Time For Friendship

  It was 9:30 pm and we were tired. A few hours earlier, my dear friend and I had carpooled 80 or so miles northeast from the city we both live in to her hometown of Milwaukee. We arrived at her parent’s house and, after a quick dinner and a stop at her favorite childhood ice…