Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
It's been quite a year for my daughter Katherine, her friend Hillary and the river they both love. A few weeks ago, Katherine got married on the Oconto River's shore. The vows she wrote celebrated that love and that river so beautifully they made us all cry. A few years ago and a few miles [...]
Five years ago, I wrote about my friend and former college housemate Colleen and the Post-It note she left me in the wee hours of a summer morning. Colleen had written a book I found fascinating, called Disconnected. Available on Amazon, the book offers insights into how to engage the youngest members of our workforce. [...]
The first time I read Mirin Fader's outstanding biography of Giannis Antetokounmpo, I loped through it with increasing speed. Fascinated and eager to learn more about the NBA MVP and his family, I whipped through that book so quickly I finished it, breathless and amazed, in a couple of days. The second time through, I'm [...]
It's sometimes astonishing how people's full circle moments intersect in ways that make you wonder who's up there drawing the Venn Diagram of our lives. For instance, my sister Jenny has been working on a book with Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Bruce Perry that explores the lasting impact of trauma. The book is called "What [...]
Way back in 1977, I wrote a fan letter to a favorite author of mine asking her when the next book in her series would be out. An embarrassingly committed bookworm, I'd plowed through all 14 books in the Beany Malone series and I wanted to know when Lenora Mattingly Weber would be coming out [...]