Sunday, January 13, 2008

Family Matters


The guy in this picture is happy. You can tell because he's acting like a dork. He's wearing what he would never confess to anybody is one of his favorite shirts and standing next to his kid sister, whom he hasn't seen in three years. There's no particular excuse for this lapse except the usual banal ones of geography and the normal chaotic disruption of events otherwise known as life.

Margie was in Philly this last weekend with her boyfriend for a librarians' conference. The family and I met up with her at a surprise birthday party for my sister-in-law's boyfriend where, surprisingly enough, everything worked out without a hitch. My kids loved seeing their aunt (Veda hadn't seen her since she was a baby) and everybody had an excellent time.

Going back over pictures of me and my sister over the years, my favorite ones are invariably silly. The vocabulary of our relationship has always been total ridiculousness. I'm going west next month and we're planning to get together again.

I hope it happens.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love it!! Thanks for sharing the pix! Kathi

Mark said...

I meant to comment that you and your sis are totally fucking gangsta.

But then it seemed reduntant, because the picture says that so much better than words.

Tell us you guys went out after and robbed a liquor store?

sam said...

nice photo. we are tuff!

and...hooray! just booked that weds night flight to meet up with you in SLC!

we're going to tear it up...

m