Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
(I'm celebrating Valentine's Day week by featuring some really amazing couples. I hope you enjoy meeting them as much as I enjoy telling their stories. I'm kicking the week off with two of the best people I know...) Uncle Herbie celebrated all week when Roy Fischer married Mary Ellen Gunderson on Feb. 27, 1965. He [...]
Tom Lyons has developed an enthusiastic following as he zips around Neenah peddling a trishaw with two happy people out front. “I laughingly call them my customers,” he said. “I have kind of a clientele and I don’t want to disappoint them.” Tom has worked as a volunteer “pilot” for the Valley VNA Senior Services [...]
Editor's Note: More than 137 years ago, my great grandparents Amand and Estelle Fey received “The Stages of Love” as a wedding present. That sweet series of five painted postcards hung in their house for 68 years, until Estelle died at 87 and Amand followed two weeks later. He was 90. My mom loved the [...]
World travelers and avid bikers, Greg and Ellen Braatz understand that the toughest roads can lead to the most scenic vistas, and the best way to climb a hill is one pedal at a time. Faced with infertility following the birth of their son Alex in 1986, the Braatz’s sought medical advice from all the [...]
Note: In honor of Valentine's Day, I'm writing about couples I admire. I first met the Kewleys in 1979 and I've loved them ever since... A slight but significant shift in Susan Ladky's 1948 social calendar gave Dick Kewley all the encouragement he needed. "She switched me from one of her Friday night dates to [...]