Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
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 [...]
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 [...]
