Tucked away in a basement room that used to be a wine cellar in our house’s headier days, stands a proud Zenith TV. An ode to simpler times, when everyone gathered around the same screen and made their program choices from three standard channels, the wooden console acts as a warm memory conduit all on [...]
I’ve spent all of my adult life thinking everyone knew the words to the Irish Rover’s classic song, “The Unicorn.” As it turns out, it was mostly just the crowd at Hegarty’s Pub on the Marquette campus back in the crazy 1980s. Still that song made a great theme for our float at a very [...]
I’ve spent all of my adult life thinking everyone knew the words to the Irish Rover’s classic song, “The Unicorn.” As it turns out, it was mostly just the crowd at Hegarty’s Pub on the Marquette campus back in the crazy 1980s. Still that song made a great theme for our float at a very [...]
I follow a couple of foster parents I admire on social media and that's how I came to know Peter Mutabazi. Peter is a single dad to Anthony, a young man who entered foster care at age four, was abandoned in a hospital by his adoptive parents at age 11, came to live with Mutabazi [...]
What do you do on a cold Saturday morning with two active little boys and a cabin full of sleeping adults? If you're lucky enough to be wandering around Shawano, you take them to the Twig's Museum and Gift Shop. I've written before about this sweet little step back in time, a free museum full [...]