I’ve spent all of my adult life thinking everyone knew the words to the Irish Rover’s classic song, “The Unicorn.” As it turns out, it was mostly just the crowd at Hegarty’s Pub on the Marquette campus back in the crazy 1980s. Still that song made a great theme for our float at a very [...]
I’ve spent all of my adult life thinking everyone knew the words to the Irish Rover’s classic song, “The Unicorn.” As it turns out, it was mostly just the crowd at Hegarty’s Pub on the Marquette campus back in the crazy 1980s. Still that song made a great theme for our float at a very [...]
“I have a silly idea,” Molly said as we lounged in our toasty cabin. “Let’s take a quick dip in the river.” Normally, this would be a no-brainer. Floating down the Oconto River remains one of our family’s favorite past times…in the summer. But an impressive spring snow and some daunting ice on the river [...]
For Christmas this year, my daughter Molly gave me three quarts of homemade ice cream. I shared, of course, teeny, tiny little dishes for my Christmas Eve guests. "What flavor would you like?" I asked each one, and then scooped that precious ice cream with a little teaspoon and served it in the smallest glass [...]
In a perfect world, all of the people I love would crowd around my mother in-law's hand-me-down dining room table every Christmas Eve, holding hands and singing fahoo fores in matching Christmas jammies while fat snowflakes floated harmlessly to the ground outside our windows and the exact right presents sat beautifully wrapped under the tree. [...]