Never in Their Picture

Summary

When our shared family cloud automatically generated its annual highlight reel, the title slide flashed across the screen in bold, cheerful lettering: "Our Happy Family of Four."

Except there were five of us.

I appeared in only a handful of snapshots, and even then, the facial recognition software had dutifully tagged me as "Other Person."

Mom always said I had the best eye for framing.

So whenever we took a family trip to Cape Cod, I was the one behind the lens. When Grandma celebrated her milestone birthdays, I was in charge of recording the video.