Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
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 [...]
The Midwestern summer can be very maternal, as evidenced by this past weekend. She leaves because she has to, thanks to that whole circle of life thing. But, she checks back on us every now and then, to make sure we’re doing ok. As summer saw, when she swooped into autumn these past few days, [...]
Former Packer linebacker Nelson Toburen texted me a few weeks ago. He and his wife Helen had a Hall of Fame love story and we were lucky to feature it in our book, Lambeau Ladies: The Boundary-Breaking Women behind Lombardi’s Packers. “Thank you Laura,” he wrote. “Your book arrived here just in time for us [...]
In one of several surreal moments last week, I found myself stuck in Packer game day traffic and chatting with a legend. I had called NFL Hall of Famer and Packer great Jerry Kramer the day before to thank him for his body of work. On a sunny afternoon last Wednesday, I had been walking [...]
You would not believe the shenanigans we had to pull to yank our beloved Packers across that soggy finish line yesterday. First, we sacrificed our firstborn son to the raucous crowd at MetLife Stadium. Charlie and his friends sat through that drizzly mess. He wore his 77 jersey and Wisconsin BRAT hat, both of which [...]