It is quite enough that my favorite high school teacher reads my blog. I get a little thrill when I see a “like” or a comment from Gladys Wisnefski because I know how smart she is. (And then I briefly panic and re-scan the post to check for errors, because I am also still the [...]
We honored our legends Sunday afternoon the best way we Packer fans know how -- with our cheers, our respect and an important victory against our neighbors to the west. Go Pack Go! We lost four key players from the Lombardi era this past year -- quarterback and very esteemed gentleman Bart Starr, running back [...]
Three times in my own life legendary quarterback Bart Starr showed up in classier-than-he-needed-to-be ways and I am just one periphary person in his very big life. In the coming days as we all mourn his loss we can soothe ourselves with hundreds of these kinds of stories about his innate generosity and commitment to [...]
I sure am glad social media wasn't around when my dad, Ron Kostelnik, was drafted to play for the Green Bay Packers. Bar stool coaches would have bellowed mightily about a team blowing its second round pick (which, back then, was the 26th pick overall) on a guy with a suspect knee from the University [...]
There is a street in San Francisco called Tony Bennett Way. Though I've never been on it, I imagine it runs smoothly, unmindful of its neighborhood's ostentation and focused admirably on the task at hand. That's the Tony Bennett way. I thought about that Monday night as I cheered Tony Bennett's Virginia team to an [...]
