Words + Images

Henrietta Bruce Sharon drew this picture for the anthology, Golden Slippers.  When I showed it to a friend his eyes watered and he said, “You should send this picture to your brother.  You and he are who I see in this illustration.”  I have three brothers.  I love them all but I am most close to my youngest brother.  Given that we were less than two years apart, our parents raised us as if we were twins.  He and I have always shared a love of stories, and so, throughout our childhood we spun stories and imagined ourselves at the center of great adventures.  I wrote and he drew.  Even though we see each other rarely these days, we still connect by phone, by email and by illustrated letters to tell the stories of our every day lives.