The holiday season begins in T-minus three days and I'm feeling panicky generous. As I'm coming off an especially educational few days, I thought I'd share a few tips I picked up during November's spare weekend. 1) Toilet paper is no substitute for paper toweling. Does this seem obvious to you? It only occurred to [...]
Category: Kathy Kostelnik
A Tale of Two Bear Fans
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times in our little corner of section 117 at Lambeau Field Monday night. We had everything before us, and then we had nothing before us.The best of times ended with 12:38 remaining in the first quarter when our invincible quarterback broke his collarbone, a [...]
Flicking cancer off her like a fly
The sun broke through a thick fog yesterday morning as we made our way to Milwaukee to celebrate my sister Kathy's last day of chemo. After 20 weeks of treatment, Kathy deserved much more than a bouquet of flowers, a care package and a trio of surprise visitors to mark the happy milestone. Still, our [...]
In HOG heaven and feeling cool
I’m no easy rider, but for a little while on a sunny Saturday afternoon, I strolled through Brady Street and felt cool. Paced by the celebratory hum of idling hogs, we made our way through packed sidewalks all decked out for the Harley Davidson 110th anniversary, which brought more than 100,000 bikers to Milwaukee, including [...]
Surprise! Happy birthday Kathy, my most gullible sister
Under the cover of 10,000 hogs, we pulled off the perfect surprise birthday party Saturday afternoon in Milwaukee. Planned with military precision by a three-generational task force -- the indomitable Grandma Peggy, Katherine and Erin -- the party required coded messages on cellphones and layer cakes, thirteen helium balloons and a tiny human carrier just [...]