Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
(Reposted from 2015 in honor of my father in-law's birthday) Had fate been just a little bit kinder and my father in-law a little less polite, we’d all have been at the race track yesterday. We’d vet horses by name, number and jockey silk, and raise our glasses to one of the greatest teams we [...]
My husband Vince and I celebrated our 39th anniversary while we were 1,400 miles apart. He toasted the occasion with a crisp bottle of Sun Drop, I with my mother’s chardonnay. Sometimes, that’s the way we roll. Still, we’re grateful for the years we’ve spent together and the big ole family we’ve raised. It’s been [...]
Mike Grabner knew all about courting when he popped into the Rail Bar with his buddies on a random August night in 1960. A star player on the Oshkosh High School basketball team, Grabner played college ball at UWO. The soft-spoken gentleman tried his hand at a different kind of courting when he spotted Rosie [...]