About Elie

The life of a young girl -- frozen in time at age 17. Elizabeth was the second of our three children. Born in Fairfax, Virginia, close to cosmopolitan Washington, D.C. When she was two we moved to a small town by the Great Mississippi River in Canton, Missouri, then we moved to a small college town in Dudley, Massachusetts. We made our last move as a family to Louisville, Kentucky where she spent her final years.

Growing up normal -- growing up almost, but not quite. Time ran out beneath a full moon on a cold February night on Brownsboro Road (KY 22) in surburban Louisville. She was only a passenger, but the driver, her friend, was drunk and speeding along the road which was only a couple of blocks from our house. She lost control of her car and hit a tree. We lost Elizabeth.

Choices have consequences. The consequences will haunt me, her family and friends forever.

She was my daughter. Our lives were close and complex, but worth it all.

I hope you will spend some time in this place where you will learn about Elizabeth, (Elie, as she was nicknamed), her interests, adventures, friends, family -- as time took her through baby years, childhood, teenage times. Not much time, but what a story.