Among all the things there are to admire about Senator John McCain's 106-year old mother Roberta -- her longevity, her wanderlust, her passion for education, the decades-long gin rummy game she maintained against her twin sister Rowena -- this maternal wisdom she passed along to her son might be the best: “She taught me to [...]
The dedication alone would have made Vinko the Achiever a fitting legacy for its subject, its author and its artist, a trio of talented dreamers. "May you be graced with a vivid imagination as a building block for your life's goals," it reads. "May you come to have relationships with inspirational people and others who serve [...]
My son Vinnie's worst day of school turned out to be his first. In fact, he stormed out of kindergarten in an uncharacteristically foul mood and firmly announced he was not going back. "My teacher called me Vincent," he said."She wrote it on my desk." "Technically you are Vincent," I said. "It's a great name, [...]
The summer before he died, my dad spent all of his free time chopping a walking path along the Oconto River. He'd emerge after spending hours in the woods, dirty, sweaty, all scratched up from tree branches and wild blackberry bushes, and grinning like an eight-year old on the first day of summer vacation. The [...]
The week she turned 89-years old, I caught our neighbor out cutting her grass. She gave me a hearty wave as I snapped a quick cellphone picture. "Just tidying up!" she yelled. We call her the Cookie Lady, and we've written about her before. Self-described as "Irish, Catholic and Senile," Connie remains as quick-witted, friendly [...]