Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
Two of our essential human needs include laughter and love. I was lucky enough to experience both this weekend, along with two women who have been their champion for the past 10 years. Pure & Weary, my favorite comic duo, celebrated their 10th anniversary with a live show Saturday night at the Yard Theater in [...]
A rainbow stretched out over the Washington Inn in Cecil, Wisconsin Saturday night and, for us, the pot of gold at the end of it was the music we heard inside. Our son Vinnie hosted a reunion of his college a cappella group, Fundamentally Sound, and, when they headed into Cecil for Double Bubble, they [...]
Pending one last exam season and the continued benevolence of fate, our son Vinnie will graduate from college in three weeks. Though his actual major remains somewhat murky to us, he is excited to make his way out into the world and, if his internship and work experience are any indication, we think he's in [...]
I wasn't going to write about our spontaneous trip to the Midwest Semi-Final round of the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella last week. (Mostly because I've written about Fundamentally Sound so many times I'm worried I made the awkward transition from proud mom to crazy stalker fan that has to sneak past security to [...]
In the span of five days, my son and his a ccapella group sang from a rickety river deck in Wisconsin's North Woods, for surprised patrons of the Washington Inn, to his grandma and our next-door neighbors in the living room of our house, and in University Hospital's ICU ward. They sing for the love [...]