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 [...]
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Five things I learned this weekend
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 [...]
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 [...]
We are family
Of the many definitions for family, we prefer the one requiring just four letters: l-o-v-e. That's the family with whom we spent this past weekend as we celebrated my sister's marriage to her longtime love, Keith. Ahead of her two flower girls, 10 junior bridesmaids preceded my sister down the aisle at her beautiful sunset-on-the-beach [...]