Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
October has been especially good to Wisconsin this year. Warm days, cool nights and an historic Brewers team have given this slow slide into autumn a welcome boost. Even the cranberry bogs around here have dressed themselves up for the season. What a joy it’s been — and we still have three jam-packed days left. [...]
Gentleman Jim is back with his merry band of scalawags and his fascinating display of ingenuity and fun. Step lively and make yer way to the vessel located on the corner of Pacific Street and Drew for the latest chapter in Gentleman Jim's chronicles. I wrote about Gentleman Jim's Painted Lady when I discovered him [...]
I remember exactly where I was the last time the Brewers won a baseball game that sent them to the World Series. It happened in 1982 and I watched the game with a bunch of my friends in the common room at O’Donnell Hall on the west end of the Marquette Campus. We screamed when [...]
I watched my sister Kathy climb 20 stairs at Lambeau Field Sunday night and thought about how inspirational metaphors can be. As I’ve written about before, Kathy is a walking miracle. She has been a stage four cancer battler for a whole decade, and a breast cancer survivor for 13 years. Her tenacity and strength [...]
I was so excited to see Ruth Ann Skoronski make her way into the room during our presentation at the Wisconsin Book Festival on Saturday, that I interrupted our gracious moderator, WMTV morning anchor Gabriella Rusk mid sentence. “Hey!” I said into my mic (with the eloquence of a barnyard Holstein), “We have another Lambeau [...]
