This was briefly my mother’s house when she lived in Elizabethtown, PA, from about 1989 to 1992 or thereabouts. It was a nice house and certainly a nice-looking place, but it suffered the way a lot of suburban houses do in that you naturally only ever used about 15 percent of it.

This is a photo from the early 1980s that stuck around on bulletin boards and the like forever — we thought this kind of thing was really funny.

From my father’s one and only year at Washington and Lee. At first I thought they were from my senior year when we played Davidson, and the comment before I noticed the date and changed it was about how stylish-looking our tickets were.

I don’t know if I’m spelling Ryder’s name correctly. This is 1983 or 1984, and we’re on the pier at Camp Crosley in North Webster, Indiana. I’m wearing a Wheel Bar t-shirt — my grandparents’ favorite bar in Estes Park, Colorado.

Yet another notecard from Ethan Dixon, passed to me during a debate round.

That’s Whit in the chair and Mitch White on the floor, and probably Barbara lying down. I think they’re at Jane’s house in New Jersey, probably 1985 or 1986.

Mom and husband #2, I think 1988 or 1989.