On a very busy Friday during which technology confounded me in one instance and distracted me in another, I relied on the kindness of strangers and, I have to say, if you're going to Blanche Dubois your way through life, Appleton is the place to do it. Here is my tale: Following a maddening experience [...]
I stood with my neighbors yesterday and watched as a long, sad line of heroes paid respects to one of their own. Firefighter inspector Mitchell Lundgaard died Wednesday, the first Appleton firefighter to be killed in the line of duty since 1933. From Milwaukee to Appleton, emergency responders and the citizens they protect made their [...]
Oh, I’d heard about Bunco before, even subbed in a group once. But last week marked the first time I had ever shaken the dice as an honest-to-goodness member of a bunco group. “What’s next, Mahjong?” asked my son Charlie-the-New-Yorker when I told him how excited I was to play the game. “I feel like [...]
My friend Jan has always been one of our neighborhoods' more impressive residents. A cheerful whirling dervish, Jan worked as a school nurse, mothered two boys and greeted every weird medical question I had with a confident smile and a ready solution. In a general phone conversation with her once, I casually mentioned that I [...]
We live in an enviable neighborhood, not for it's zip code, or architecture or even the park for which its named. The real asset of our neighborhood is its people and the way they treat each other. Yesterday, we found a small package hanging from our door knob. This is not unusual in our neck [...]
