My sister Kathy is the middlest of middle children, Switzerland in family squabbles and loathe to offend anyone. But, you don't want to mess with her when it comes to books or the children who read them. A retired library media specialist, Kathy has made it her mission to read or re-read every banned book. [...]
Tuesday night belonged to the E Street Band, my sisters and me. Well, mostly it belonged to me and Bruce, but it was also fun to have my sisters along. I last saw Bruce Springsteen perform live back in 1984 when I was a summer intern at the hot rockin', flame throwin' Z95 radio station [...]
If I could, I would have written a better ending to the Packer season. It would have wrapped up in Arizona with a Super Bowl win following one of those glorious I-told-you-so rolls through the playoffs we Packer fans could practically taste. But, I don't write fiction here and, in truth, the Packers did not [...]
It seemed just about right when our friend John Jorgensen texted a few nights ago to note with amusement that he and my mom, Grandma Peggy, were both pictured in the current edition of the Compass, the Green Bay Diocese Newspaper. My mom and John have been sharing spaces for well over three decades. She [...]
They invited me to come along, but I honestly had more fun watching my two little sisters have a big night at the Phil Collins Genesis concert Tuesday night in Chicago. My sister Jenny (who also goes by Jenna) called it a Jenna-Sis night and they live-texted me throughout. As I've written about before, I [...]