Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
I know it’s just a game, not markedly different than the one little kids play on Saturday mornings. But, man, doesn’t it feel good to cheer for something every now and then? Lambeau Field looked particularly gorgeous last night, all lit up outside and in. I held my cellphone flashlight aloft and just took it [...]
I tore through the Mile of Music Festival like a crazy person this weekend, sprinting from one end of the Avenue to the other, determined to hear as much music as I possibly could. (As it turns out, that's a lot of music!) I soaked in every set I heard from Wednesday's night through Sunday [...]
We've been calling my sisters the Little Girls for more years than they'd care for me to repeat. Born three years apart, the two youngest girls in our family shared a room (and even, for a few years, one double bed). They wore matching clothes until Kathy, the older of the two, put her foot [...]
In a contentious world full of bluster and misinformation, I'm glad we still have libraries. There, a thousand stories and a million real facts welcome all comers. You can find both education and entertainment among those stacks. And, if you don't see what you're looking, just summon a librarian. That's what I did when I [...]
Our college years seemed frozen in time yesterday (and so were we) as we strolled through the Marquette campus ahead of the big Seton Hall game. Through watery eyes slit shut against the icy air, we hightailed it past some of our favorite haunts. We poked our heads into the St. Joan of Arc chapel [...]