Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
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 [...]
Former Packer linebacker Nelson Toburen texted me a few weeks ago. He and his wife Helen had a Hall of Fame love story and we were lucky to feature it in our book, Lambeau Ladies: The Boundary-Breaking Women behind Lombardi’s Packers. “Thank you Laura,” he wrote. “Your book arrived here just in time for us [...]
