Entries Tagged as ‘Family’

March 15, 2009

CSI: Conroe, Texas

When you go on vacation during Christmas, you expect to spend time in the loving bosom of your family, not at a former crime scene.
We packed three people and seemingly tens of thousands of presents into the car headed to Texas to visit my wife’s family over the Christmas. Had this been a less buy [...]

February 3, 2009

To my daughter on her 16th birthday

My little girl isn’t so little any more.
Alexandra Rose Wilke turns 16 on Monday. She’ll go for a driver’s license test. There will be more boys asking for dates. Soon she’ll be going to college. Career, marriage, children can’t be far behind.
She’s come a long way. It hasn’t always been a smooth road. When she [...]