Photographing Ann Fisher

My Auntie Ann is 100 years old (recently hospitalized and photographed, insert) and feeling every bit of it these days. In her Baltimore youth, she played a game with her sisters called "funeral" where she would lay corpse-pose on two chairs while my grandmother and other great-aunt walked around her and remarked "my, don't she look natural."

In more recent decades, she made it to the top of WBAL radio's banned caller list, a fact brought to light when my sister interned there during college and stumbled upon the memo. Another family member was #2. "Ann from Mount Washington" and sometimes "Ann from Pimlico" (nice try, rarely worked) was addicted to talk radio which is no small problem for a person who never shuts up.

But that's Auntie Ann, she has an opinion on everything and likes to keep up with current events. When asked the other day who the President was, she repeatedly replied "Castro!" It's a splotchy neck-and-neck race but I hope he goes down first.