Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
"Well,I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person." --Sylvia Plath Some snowfalls land gently, like a lace tablecloth on an old, scared dining room table. That's how Sunday morning's snow seemed to me. It approached without fanfare before dawn, tidied up the [...]
You could fill a library with books about legendary Packer Coach Vince Lombardi and wallpaper a stadium with his quotes. So ubiquitous are the images of him stalking the sidelines in his trench coat and fedora that children whose parents weren't even born during the Lombardi Years still dress like him for Halloween. Coach Lombardi [...]
On a Sunday afternoon in 1961, Gene Chu adjusted the rabbit ears on his family's TV and became a lifelong Packer fan. For most of his childhood, he was the only Packer fan he knew. Chu, then a young boy living in Espanola, a small paper mill town located in Northern Ontario, picked a good [...]
We were limping to the finish line of this Packer season, cold, discouraged and disconcertingly relieved to be attending our last game at Lambeau, when we ran smack into a bunch of green and gold cheer. Our friends the Shadick family, with their matching Christmas Packer hand warmers and their contagious grins, understand that football [...]
I wore my dad's jersey into Heinz Field because I wasn't sure how Steeler fans would treat me and my giant green and gold Packer coat. If they got nasty, I figured I could explain that, though my dad played for the Packers for eight years and the Colts for one, he was from Pennsylvania [...]