Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
My sister in-law Joan Biskupic sure knows how to time a book launch. On the day Wisconsin voters decided the winner of the most expensive state Supreme Court race in history, and Donald Trump became the first former president to be indicted on federal charges, Nine Black Robes -- Inside the Supreme Court's drive to [...]
I've known one author most of my life and the other all of hers, so when I learned that Julie Olson and her granddaughter Colleen Cline wrote a book, I bought it immediately. I'm so glad I did. "Can She Hear This Cat's Meow?" offers Colleen's reflections on growing up with a grandma (and best [...]
A recent teacher's note made me smile. "He loves to read and that's great," she wrote, and went on to describe a few other subjects our young charge approached with a lot less glee. We addressed her concerns appropriately, but I could not help grinning away from the fray. "He loves to read." How wonderful! [...]
Though it had been there all along, we discovered the most amazing Little Free Library just a few weeks ago on the first day of school. How cool is that? My young friend even selected a book as carefully as time allowed, and opened it right up and began to read as we walked to [...]
In the wee hours of a summer morning back in 1985, I returned to my college apartment after an evening out and found a two-paged Post-it note stuck to my door. The note did not surprise me as that was how we communicated in the pre-cellphone era. I was struck, however, by its form. Deep [...]