Beyond his talent and the way he could tell a whole story with a single image, NFL Hall of Fame photographer Vern Biever was a really nice guy. One day several years ago, my mom received an unsolicited package from him and opened it to find several prints of my dad during his playing years [...]
In a lot of ways, these are the carpe-est of the diems, the waning days of a beloved season and the delicious promise of the next. So, we reach hard for every moment we can – Yes! To the apple picking. Yes! To the campfires. Yes! To the flannel and the swimsuits and the fleece. [...]
My favorite kind of luck wafts up from the shepherd's pie you eat in a park on a warm Friday night in September. It sails out over a gathering crowd and touches each heart with its glow. Notes carry that kind of luck and they come from the cheerfullest instruments -- fiddles, flutes, bagpipes and [...]
Our neighbor turned 13 in the most elegant way, thanks to a lot of hard work and a cool new business called Mobile Mini Trucks. She and her family got to work setting up their already impressive yard. They placed a beautiful table set with china, candles and flowers under a large white tent and [...]
Well, you can't have wanted it to end like that. No matter how mad you were at Aaron Rodgers for his vaccination stance, or his ayahuasca promotion, or the way he seemed to shed his surliness like a fat-tailed gecko and emerge all spiffed up and shiny for his New York debut, you can't have [...]