Kind of like the radio announcer Paul Harvey's "The Rest of the Story,"..... this is what I call "The Rest of the Picture."

Of course, as a real estate agent, I have some official pictures of me in a suit, like I usually wear when the weather permits, and then, there's this picture of me that you see on the home page of this website. That’s because my sister Karina said I ought to put it up there, instead of the one of me wearing the suit.

I'm sitting at my desk right now, looking at the original photo. There was someone else with me in that photo, and I want to tell you about this, because it is a funny story.

My beloved sister, Karina, is the other person in the photo. For years I've stood in my sister's shadow, literally and figuratively. She has always been the smartest one in the family. Even at a young age you could see this. By the time she was about 14, she was even smarter than my parents (heehee), and taking talented and gifted classes at SMU, and started college at Case Western University at 16. She is now 28 years old, very athletic, and stands 6'1" in bare feet, with long auburn hair. Guys seriously refer to my sister as, "The Goddess." If I had a nickel for every time I heard, "Kim, your sister is a goddess."

A few years ago, when she was living in Manhattan (New York City), I was there visiting her and we were going to see the Fourth of July fireworks, because they put on the best fireworks show there. Karina and I were strolling through a neighborhood drugstore, like a Walgreen's, and this lady came up and asked us if she could take our photo for Glamour magazine. They were looking for candidates for makeovers. (I’m not sure why she thought we needed a makeover!) I can tell you that my sister was wearing a pair of man’s polyester pants from the 1970s with a vintage t-shirt, all found at a thrift store. And her wild hair was about down to her waist. And I had just gotten back from a trip to Jamaica, and I was wearing an island-type dress, navy with big flowers all over it, and some flip flops. Just a couple of laid-back country girls in the big city.

So the lady asked me if I could fly back to New York City (at my expense) the following week for the hair cut, and makeover, and photo shoot, and I said "yeah." So the picture you see on the front of his website is actually me, with Karina cropped out of the picture, at the Glamour magazine photo shoot. So now you know....the rest of the story!