Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
Our college years seemed frozen in time yesterday (and so were we) as we strolled through the Marquette campus ahead of the big Seton Hall game. Through watery eyes slit shut against the icy air, we hightailed it past some of our favorite haunts. We poked our heads into the St. Joan of Arc chapel [...]
I always knew my college roommate Teri was destined for great things. While I idly scanned ids at the recreation center to earn college spending money, Teri kept the books for Gimbels, a large department store in Milwaukee. I always marvelled that such a sophisticated store had a 21-year old bookkeeper. She earned an engineering [...]
Did I tell you the one about me, Travis Diener and the Kiss Cam? No? My sister Kathy will be shocked. She believes I have told that story to every living soul on the planet (and a few who have passed on as well). It goes like this: Several years ago, I sat next to [...]
The oldest building in Wisconsin holds more than six hundred years of memories, including four years of my own. St. Joan of Arc Chapel sits in the heart of Marquette University's rapidly changing campus, nearly exactly as I remember it from my time on campus in the early 1980s. We used to pop in for [...]
Friday afternoon, we packed up our car and pointed it north for the meandering kind of vacation we've grown to love. Our loose plan, to recreate a spontaneous college road trip we'd undertaken with friends in the dead of winter 33 years ago, left plenty of room for improvisation. We packed some memories, along with [...]