Sharing too much of my loved ones lives isn’t something I feel comfortable blogging.
But … here’s a picture of my family taken at my sister Susan’s and my brother-in-law John’s wedding last September. Growing up I took solace in what I took to be the all too irrefutable fact we were a dysfunctional family. Now [...]

Browder, I sure am sorry I got sick later that night and we didn’t get to see you the next day. I know it’s ridiculous of me to say that but how could I not feel it?
It’s funny, I never thought I’d get to see you in Etowah, but I did. I’ll never think of [...]

Finn Rheingold Neely, son of my sister Susan and her partner John was born one week ago. At the time he was 8 lbs, 13 oz and 22 inches long. Check out that full head of hair and blue eyes! Yippee!

Oh, you can’t see the blue eyes in this photo, but I hear they are [...]

On Wednesday at 3pm EST Amtrak will blow their whistle of all their trains. Such a synchronized event happens only once a decade and Wednesday’s will be in honor of my uncle, Earle Stanwood Bagley Jr.
Stan, my mother’s younger brother of 12 years, started working for Amtrak in 1974, not long after the [...]