A Proper Introduction

An introduction, to those who live here in our little apartment on the north side: There is Jack, my husband, the girls' father; there is Mary, and there is Kate, three year old twin girls, delightful, funny, smart and wonderful roomates; also Eleanor Roosevelt, the beagle; and Baby Dick Durbin, Kate's always companion and small bald doll; and Barack Obama, Mary's baby doll, beginning to show some wear from three years of love, and then of course, Bear and Ella, our very treasured teddy bears who go on all trips and excursions with us, all of us. This is the family to which my girls refer, all packed in, in our little space just north of Wrigley Field.