The past belongs to everyone who was there. What do you remember? ADD YOUR STORY
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While our sister is incommunicado, celebrating her birthday in Mexico with her husband, I thought it prudent to publish a slightly embarrassing photographic journey of a life filled with a whole lotta love, intelligence, kindness, generosity, beauty, and grace. (To ensure that she won’t be TOO mad at me, I included a pretty picture of her in which I have a double chin.)
Here she is, all smiles from the very beginning.
These arms are always open for a hug. Also, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to post a picture of her in a bikini!
Another hug, another bikini. This is a great example of the warmth that this gal brings to any situation. Look, she’s making Amanda smile! (Though not rare in real life, Amanda is not one for smiling in photographs. And you all KNOW how she felt about her little sister at this point in time!)
Ah, yes. The famous catalog shoot that began and ended Liz’s modeling career. She is wearing turquoise jeans, btw. Young Brooke Sheilds, for realz!
Heh, heh. Prom. She’s seriously going to kill me for this one.
Liz in front of her home in Long Island. It’s a happy place. Look at that grin!
Here’s Liz and me in Marfa, Texas, where we finished writing The Kids are All Right. We were trying to take an author photo of the two of us. This one, needless to say, was not a contender. (Note my chin.)
And here’s our beautiful sis on her wedding day. There seriously and in all honesty has never been a more beautiful bride!
WE LOVE YOU LIZ!!! HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
I am doing these in reverse after finding a bunch of them in our spam folder and so I apologize for the lapse…
Dear Carol: your note really touched me. I too hope your kids realize how special it is to have siblings. I don’t think we truly realized what a special bond we have until we wrote this book together. And so if reading the book has a similar effect, well then, hallelujah! Thanks so much for reaching out to us! xiz
Finished your book in four days, took it everywhere I went. I couldn’t put it down, and I am BUSY!! Thank you ALL for your honesty, and your rawness, and your commitment to each other. Liz, for your compassionate heart, Dan for your guts, Diana for your undying faith and Amanda for your strength, I applaud you for documenting & sharing your struggles and triumphs along your grief journey. Thank you from grieving children-turned adults everywhere.
I am doing these in reverse after finding a bunch of them in our spam folder and so I apologize for the lapse…
Dear Carol: your note really touched me. I too hope your kids realize how special it is to have siblings. I don’t think we truly realized what a special bond we have until we wrote this book together. And so if reading the book has a similar effect, well then, hallelujah! Thanks so much for reaching out to us! xiz
Finished your book in four days, took it everywhere I went. I couldn’t put it down, and I am BUSY!! Thank you ALL for your honesty, and your rawness, and your commitment to each other. Liz, for your compassionate heart, Dan for your guts, Diana for your undying faith and Amanda for your strength, I applaud you for documenting & sharing your struggles and triumphs along your grief journey. Thank you from grieving children-turned adults everywhere.
Hello Emily! Thanks so much for your kind email. We are constantly amazed at how many people reach out to share their thoughts with us about our story. It makes us all the more proud of writing it in the first place! Wishing you all the very best, Liz on behalf of her siblings.
This is one of the most amazing books I’ve read in a long time. Tears were streaming down my face by the end (and throughout!). I am a 30 year old mom to 3 kids, ages 6 and under. I also have MS, and know how it feels to be a “sick mom” and fearing my kids have more weight on my shoulders then they should. But they will always have each other, and I can only hope they grow up with as much love for each other as all you siblings have. Thank you for sharing this story with the world.
Thank you so much, Angie!
And remember, as four kids of a “sick mom,” we not only have love for each other, but indelible love for our mother. We are all so grateful for the time we got to spend with her!!
Hello Emily! Thanks so much for your kind email. We are constantly amazed at how many people reach out to share their thoughts with us about our story. It makes us all the more proud of writing it in the first place! Wishing you all the very best, Liz on behalf of her siblings.
I just read your book, and yes, it brought back so many memories. My Dad died when I was twelve of a heart attack in the bedroom across the hall. I remember it all very vividly. My Mom was screaming at me to do something, and I didn’t know what to do. We had been planning a trip to Disneyland the next day, and a week later my Mom insisted we still go. She brought a “friend” and took my sister and I to stay with some family friends in California. I was miserable. My Mom was an alcholic, but I didn’t know it at the time. Not until three years later when she beat me up and put me in the hospital. She had wanted me to go get her more alcohol. I was fifteen. I don’t often see my family, my Mom has alzheimers and lives in a nursing home, my younger sister “took her side” and we grew apart, my older sister left about the same time I went to the hospital the third time, a brother was killed by a drunk driver, and another died in Vietnam. But, I grew up, married a great guy, had two wonderful daughters one of whom is married with three adorable sons, and I survived! Your book brought back poignent memories. I felt alot like Diana, not knowing where I belonged, and not able to find out. Thanks for writing it! Thanks for the memories! Oh, and I am a fifty one year old Grandma, Mother and Wife!
Woah, Leeanne. That’s some rough stuff. (I’m like, so my parents died and my mean foster mother made me eat out of a dog bowl – big deal!) I sure am glad you came through it all, and that you have gone on to create a happy life for you, your kids and grandkids. And I hope that, if it’s right for you, one day you and your sisters will be able to be in each others’ lives again.
with respect,
diana