Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
Three years ago, my daughter Katherine suggested we work on a project together to celebrate some of the strong, elegant, funny, intelligent women we know. Of course, I agreed. Who wouldn't? I got to work with my daughter, honor my mother, and interview a whole slew of interesting people who played key roles in my [...]
Note: I am reposting this in honor of Mile 13 because I was talking to current MoM artist Dan Navarro about how it all began. I wrote this post in 2013... Grammy winners and grandmas shared VIP status during Appleton's Mile of Music, a four-day festival that celebrated both music and the Midwest, elevated new [...]
(Reposted from 2015 in honor of my father in-law's birthday) Had fate been just a little bit kinder and my father in-law a little less polite, we’d all have been at the race track yesterday. We’d vet horses by name, number and jockey silk, and raise our glasses to one of the greatest teams we [...]
Three times this weekend I treated myself to the kind of entertainment that gives me hope in this old world. I sat in a park on a warm, summer afternoon and listened to Hillary, Ric and Rod Reynolds play classic and original tunes. They performed with such talent and contagious joy I couldn’t help but [...]
When your life’s path takes you from the sweaty fields of a tobacco farm, through Lambeau Field, on to a Super Bowl, and into the highest echelon of academia, you’re going to give an inspiring speech. Dr. George Koonce did just that last night at the Appleton Public Library. He spoke about the childhood he [...]
