You can find a hashtag holiday for almost any occasion, but I think my favorite might be today. Happy #MakingLifeBeautiful Day, designed to celebrate anyone who makes life beautiful. That, my friends, means you. Happy #MakingLifeBeautiful Day to my friend Rose, who rescued a turtle and sat still enough to handfeed some hummingbirds, all on [...]
Some stories are more layered than the number of pages that contain them. Such is the case with this one, in which a 57-year old library book from an obsolete grade school makes its way into my hands in the middle of an Appleton Police Department retirement party. “I’ve been saving this for you,” said [...]
My mom was just 23-years old when she walked up to the local drugstore in Cincinnati, Ohio and asked her friend the soda jerk for a copy of Life Magazine. "Why do you want to read Life Magazine?" he teased. "I think I'm in it," she said. They opened the January 1962 issue and there [...]
Just 20 years old when the Packers offered him a contract in 1960, my dad needed a parental signature to launch his NFL career. That took some convincing. My grandma, Julie Kostelnik, worried her young son would get hurt and she initially refused to sign. As Phil Bengston, reporters, Dad and his college girlfriend Peggy [...]