Mom, Before She Was a Mom

Isn't my mom beautiful? This photo was taken long before I ever met her.


The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within: strength, courage, dignity. -Ruby Dee

Grandma and Grandpa Brown

Formal photo of Grandma and Grandpa Brown.
What can I say? They were the best grandparents ever! I have been so blessed to have experienced first hand the amazing marriages of both my parents and grandparents. I hope to be blessed with a marriage as happy and as loving as theirs someday.


There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-Homer

The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together.
-Robert C. Dodds

Kathryn and David at Ballenger Park

My father took this photo of my brother and I in the early 70's while we were playing in Ballenger Park which was just down the block from our childhood home.



You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762