It's amazing the things you learn paddling around a public swimming pool. There I was bobbing along Sunday afternoon, when my Mom leaned across a lane marker and casually mentioned that she and her sister had been among the first children to receive Albert Sabin's live oral polio vaccine. Our conversation developed from her initial [...]
You could fill a library with books about legendary Packer Coach Vince Lombardi and wallpaper a stadium with his quotes. So ubiquitous are the images of him stalking the sidelines in his trench coat and fedora that children whose parents weren't even born during the Lombardi Years still dress like him for Halloween. Coach Lombardi [...]
This weekend, just after we watch the big royal wedding, we'll be hanging out with kings. We're heading up to Shawano on Saturday for the first official race of the Dirt Kings Late Model Tour's second season. I watched with great fascination as my friends Sandy and Jason Schultz and their daughter Katelynn built a [...]
Earlier this year I attended a class in Mindful Meditation, taught by Pandit Dasa, a Mindful Leadership and wellbeing expert who has written books and traveled the world spreading his message of Conscious Living. I'm pretty sure I failed. Though I kept yanking it back, I simply could not keep my toddler mind from wandering [...]
My husband and I have been married a very long time. So, on Saturday morning when I asked him to take a picture of me so I could send it to our four kids, and he said, "Are you sure you're feeling photogenic right now?" I said, "Apparently not," and thanked him for the helpful [...]
