eclaire (what’s in a) name?

when i was living in aptos and commuting to work in scotts valley with katie, i started choosing to listen to npr for the first time. (i have vivid memories from my childhood of scanning past the low numbers on the car radio as fast as possible so my mom and dad wouldn’t ask me to stop on the boooring npr stations.)

every friday morning, katie and i would look forward to hearing the Story Corps feature, which is an ongoing project that records family members and friends having personal and touching conversations all over the country. we would often well up (at least i know i would, i can’t speak for katie), and “awwww” over the poignant memories shared with us over the radio waves.

i still look forward to story corps every friday, and today there was an especially moving one about sisters. while the story was different from the relationship my sister and i had when we were kids, it does remind me of how i feel about her today. not to get all sappy, but it warmed my heart and i thought that you might enjoy listening to it, too:

http://www.storycorps.net/listen/stories/janaki-symon-and-melissa-wilbur