Football is family. Every player has heard that statement from every coach who ever held a clipboard. Mostly, they're talking about the players on the field. But, here in Wisconsin, we like to take that sentiment to a whole new level. For example, Saturday afternoon we took our two little munchkins and my mom to [...]
On crisp weekday mornings, when the sun is just starting to climb above golden trees, and a fresh frost makes the ground look like one of those cool, glittery, sequin books you can run your finger across, I feel like the luckiest person in the world. I get to walk to school with a little [...]
Marge Higgins owes her eye-winking wit to a lifetime appreciation for language, and her nickname to a long association with a faith community that loves her fiercely. The only daughter of a newspaper publisher who was also the town’s postmaster, “Grammy” has always understood the power of words. So, she chooses hers carefully, kindly and [...]
Some holidays need a whole season. They swell with such sweetness and ingenuity, magic and mischief, community spirit and love that they burst beyond their allotted day and spread those good feelings through weeks and even a whole month. Halloween is like that in our neck of the woods, a celebration of kindness, childhood and [...]
I did not, as my beloved Packers invited me to do, tag myself in the “Ultimate Lambeau Selfie” the folks at 1265 emailed me earlier this week. In fact, initially I was pretty horrified by the idea that, while I earnestly, occasionally loudly, and with alternating expressions of glee and disappointment, cheered my team on, [...]