The message, stern and somewhat threatening, appeared yesterday on every single door of my daughter Katherine's apartment building. "The laundry room is not for personal storage space," it read. "If those are your bikes downstairs, you have 24 hours to remove them, otherwise the office will remove and dispose of them." And that's how Paired [...]
My son and daughter in-law Vinnie and Danni share a love of adventure, a palate for good wine and an affinity for hard work. As level one sommelieres, they understand that, when stressed by the elements, fruit can either grow bitter or more robust. Just like us. In the face of COVID-19 challenges that stymied [...]
From the day we met her, our son Vinnie's girlfriend Danni has felt like family. A jump-right-in-and-help kind of girl, Danni has floated down a river with us, cheered our various and quirky sports affiliations (Go Croatian soccer!), toasted, chuckled, cleaned, celebrated and consoled. She builds the best camp fires we have ever seen and [...]
Have you ever been to Punxsutawney? I have. That's how loyal I am to my fickle friend Phil. We share a fondness for random celebrations and burrowing on chilly February mornings. We're also legendary procrastinators, which is how my family holiday card came to celebrate the groundhog. Our tradition started because I kept putting off [...]
Everyone has a Christmas Camelot -- that magical moment when you look around a room filled with all the people you love and your heart swells so big it nudges the tear ducts in your eyes. This year, our Christmas Camelot happened midway through the holidays on a frigid Thursday in Cecil, Wisconsin. Smoke curled [...]