I’ve known Sondra Mortier since she was six-years old and one of my daughter Katherine’s best friends. A smiley sprite with big brown eyes and enviable pipes on her tiny arms, Sondra moved with transcendent grace and a beauty she had neither the time nor the need to acknowledge. In our neighborhood we referred to [...]
He says her smile lights up a room. She loves his optimism, good looks and great singing voice. Together they have seen the “in sickness and in health” portion of their wedding vows challenged many times throughout their 13-year marriage, but Tori Thurston Burton and Jerry Burton still seize and share an impressive amount of [...]
By all accounts, Bob Abitz’s first love was racing. He even promptly broke up with his high school girlfriend when she told him he needed to choose between her and his race car. His next love, though, found him shortly thereafter and, for nearly 50 years, Bob’s devotion to his wife Lynn and the family [...]
I recently played a word association game called Bye Felicia with a 12-year old boy I know. The idea is to write down as many related words to an assigned topic as you can think of in 30 seconds. One of our categories was “Things you can open and close.” I chuckled as I wrote [...]
Tom Lyons has developed an enthusiastic following as he zips around Neenah peddling a trishaw with two happy people out front. “I laughingly call them my customers,” he said. “I have kind of a clientele and I don’t want to disappoint them.” Tom has worked as a volunteer “pilot” for the Valley VNA Senior Services [...]