If I could give an award for the Great American Family,
it would go to TAPS and her family, from her parents to her kids! Every time she tells us a story about her life, I am struck with the love and intelligence, the generosity that flowed from her parents, making the very best of lives, the most solid family with good and enduring values despite material challenge, even hardship. Those values and strengths she has passed along to her own kids, with love, joy and encouragement. She shares these same qualities in everything she writes here, even in... Sign in to see full entry.