Remembering Stanley Guttenberg: A Quiet Life of Service and Family
A short portrait of a private man I write about a man whose name appears most often as…
Remembering Georgina Schuyler: A Life of Music, Memory, and Family
Early life and the pull of ancestry I have always been drawn to lives that sit at the…
The Quiet Architect of a Boxing Dynasty: Gary Russell Sr.
A Family Forged in the Ring I have spent hours thinking about how one man built an empire…
Family Portrait and Quiet Life of Kathy Evanstad
Early life in Hartford I begin where the story begins on paper, with a birthplace and a family…
The Quiet Strength of Emma Jane Hitchcock
Roots in Leytonstone I often imagine a narrow shopfront with wooden crates stacked like small islands of color.…
Portrait in Quiet Light: Gwyn Rainer, a Memphis Life
Early life and roots I first came across the outline of a life traced in small, telling dates…
Latonya Tresvant: Quiet Voice, Musical Family, and a Life Between Notes
Early life and family roots My stories focus on those living outside headlines because they typically have the…
Remembering Iris Annabel: a brief portrait of a life and the family that shaped it
A life in brief I write this as someone who has watched public lives fold into private grief.…
Quiet Strength and Family Roots: Joyce Leon Poole in Portrait
A personal introduction to Joyce Leon Poole I have been piecing together a life from fragments: names in…
Inside the Baldwin Branch: A Look at Avis Ann Baldwin and Her Family
My introduction to this family I have been tracing public threads of one branch of the Baldwin family…