Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
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 [...]
Reading is such a simple pleasure. Open a book on a rainy afternoon and you can go anywhere with anyone, and you can do anything when you get there. In the past few months, I've enjoyed an eloquent conversation with an elderly octopus, commiserated with a brother and sister drawn to their childhood home, spent [...]
My friend Jill gave me a great idea. She’s full of great ideas, honestly, and I’m a greedy taker of them. In this case, she mentioned how much fun she’d had dressing in costume to play with her three-year old grandson. I love a good costume project and the Halloween season seems like an especially [...]
The Midwestern summer can be very maternal, as evidenced by this past weekend. She leaves because she has to, thanks to that whole circle of life thing. But, she checks back on us every now and then, to make sure we’re doing ok. As summer saw, when she swooped into autumn these past few days, [...]
Mark Twain once signed an autograph album with the following quote: "Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life." Except for the part about the sleepy conscience, this quote could describe my mom's book club, a delightful group of thoughtful women who enjoy both the reading and the socializing aspect [...]
