Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
My friend Jill knows a little something about being an athlete. In 2011, the Purdue University and Xavier High School basketball star earned an induction into the Wisconsin Basketball Hall of Fame. Jill also knows a little something about love. She married her high school sweetheart and gleefully devotes herself to the two children they [...]
As is her style, my sister in-law Melissa celebrated her 40th birthday with grace, gusto and ten pounds of green beans. Melissa's Racing to 40, a Kentucky Derby themed birthday bash, included everything Churchill Downs has to offer -- mint juleps, crazy hats, and sweet three-year olds -- and plenty that it doesn't -- a [...]
I've been married since the Feds sentenced Fat Tony Salerno to 100 years in prison for racketeering. (That's 1987 for the non mafia-philes among you.) The point is, I've been married a looooong time. Through all those years I've developed some insights into the married couple brain and I'm happy to share a few on [...]
The newest member of our neighborhood took the long road home. Bear, a year and-half old bundle of sweet mischief, charmed his way from central Ohio to Northern Wisconsin last week. Found wandering along a highway, he spent three weeks in a loving foster home before bounding into the arms of my friend and passionate [...]
With all due respect to the Wikipedia Warriors who updated Brandon Bostick's page so swiftly the young tight-end barely had time to emerge from the Packer locker room following the Packer's stunning loss in the NFC championship game last week, we'd like to offer an important addendum. Thanks to the gracious reporting of impartial sports [...]