Editor's Note: More than 137 years ago, my great grandparents Amand and Estelle Fey received “The Stages of Love” as a wedding present. That sweet series of five painted postcards hung in their house for 68 years, until Estelle died at 87 and Amand followed two weeks later. He was 90. My mom loved the [...]
My sister Kathy has been honored by almost every school she has attended. Saturday night, she received a distinguished alumni award from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee School of Information Studies, to complement the Herb Kohl Fellowship she was awarded in 2007, the University of Wisconsin - Madison distinguished alumni award she won in [...]
We sat facing a sweet Saturday sun, wearing our festive red gear and pondering our place in this fickle universe. Was it right to settle in and enjoy a college football game in Wisconsin while a huge, snarling hurricane ripped through the Caribbean and bore down on Florida? Especially since the rightful holder of our [...]
What's a family to do when the Packer season abruptly ends and an interminable winter looms dark and cold? Gather sweet friends for a big ole aca-awesome party. That's what we did Saturday night and it turned out to be one of our most Fundamentally Sound ideas. We took some of the nicest people we [...]
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 [...]