Today's NFL players have become whole businesses. They hire trainers, nutritionists, accountants, managers, physical therapists and agents to support them year-round. When the average career span in your profession is just slightly over three years, you want to make the most of your time there. I think it's a wise, though expensive, investment. But, do [...]
If you want to know what it’s like to be raised by a high school tennis coach, just witness our most recent family get together. Like many of our little social gatherings, it involved a painstakingly debated draw with some trash talking pairings. Some teams showed up with a walk up song, others wore matching [...]
We got to hang with the people in our neighborhood Monday night at a block party more than five years in the making. In the time since our last block party, families got bigger, new faces moved in, little peanuts grew up, couples married, babies came and my husband Vince and I officially became, well, [...]
Al fresco season blew into Wisconsin on a charcoal-scented cloud this weekend and we all -- traveling troubadours, weekend skippers, ATV drivers, backyard barbecuers, Timber Rattler tailgaters, cabin cleaners and Midwest munchers -- dusted off our picnic tables and bellied up with glee. Food tastes better when you can eat it outside. Music sounds sweeter [...]
My mom called me from her flip phone on a sunny spring day. “Laura,” she said. “I can’t do Facetime but I want you to know that our baby is beautiful.” I know this, of course. “Our baby” is my mom’s great-granddaughter, my granddaughter Margo Lake, and, like all baby humans, she has grown even [...]