Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
I think I will never get over the miracle of grandparenthood. I am extra thrilled right now to be able to enjoy back-to back snuggles with my little LA taco, and my two New Jersey bagels. We’re having a glorious time. The taco came to Wisconsin for two whole weeks and she gamely traveled nearly [...]
I hope the magic of summer in Wisconsin lures my granddaughters back again and again. I want the slow drift of campfire smoke to tickle their memory, and the sticky taste of S’mores to linger long after the last log burns. I’d like the little red train that chugged us through Bay Beach to show [...]
My daughter Katherine called me three years ago with an idea. She wanted us to write a book together about the Packer wives during the Glory Years. She suggested we produce a companion podcast as well. Of course, I said yes. Katherine lives more than 1000 miles away from me and I look forward to [...]
(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 [...]
We blessed the vines our son Vinnie and his wife Danni planted this weekend in a ceremony so simple and yet so touching I’m warmed by it still. In the ancient Georgian tradition, ten times we raised our glasses as the sun set on one of those gorgeous, productive days that end in sweaty, tired [...]