Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
I have a Jiminy Cricket judgment coach who sits on my shoulder and wags his finger at me with annoying consistency. “Lucky for you,” he says (I’d like to say smugly, but I’d definitely get a reprimand for that). “Lucky for you, you don’t have to have an opinion on that.” Most times, I agree. [...]
On a 21-hour travel day that saw me roll through five busy airports, I wore my "You are Beautiful" T-shirt and observed. I left yesterday from Fort Lauderdale airport where I saluted the resiliency of this great country. I flew to O'Hare, drove to General Mitchell to catch a flight west, enjoyed a quick layover [...]
If the worst parts about living in a battleground state are the phone calls and television commercials (and they ARE!), the best parts are the personal visits from the candidates themselves. Yesterday, Molly and her dad waited in line for more than three hours to hear what Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders had to say. [...]
We placed the only yard sign we plan to display during this contentious political season. It reads "You are beautiful." Because you are. You are busy and impatient sometimes, and maybe you roll through the stop sign in front of our house. You work hard and occasionally snack too much. You don't always remember to [...]
Since August the state of Wisconsin has been lucky enough to be represented in Washington D.C. by one of La Crosse's golden sons, my old college/New York roommate Devin. Devin is attending a two-year grad school program at Georgetown, and two months in seemed like the perfect time to arrange a delegation of Wisconsinites to go [...]