The little boy greeted me as I waited for him outside the school door on a sunny afternoon last week. “You're old!” he said and skipped off through the crowded playground. It wasn’t the response I had been expecting to my chirpy, “Hey! How was your day?” and I initially took offense. Then I looked [...]
Tucked away in a basement room that used to be a wine cellar in our house’s headier days, stands a proud Zenith TV. An ode to simpler times, when everyone gathered around the same screen and made their program choices from three standard channels, the wooden console acts as a warm memory conduit all on [...]
If you deal the cards, they will come. Fishermen fresh off the nearby lake, retired CEOs of large corporations, farmers enjoying a break on a Tuesday afternoon, musicians, judges, police officers, shift workers, social workers, teachers…if you deal the cards, they will come. They’ll bring with them the memories of their fathers, who taught them [...]
Lee Bergsbaken spent Tuesday morning ice fishing on Shawano Lake and then made his way to his regular weekly sheepshead game at Take a Chance in Advance. "I've got a nice bunch of blue gills if you want them," he told my husband as they made their way in to play a few hands. It [...]
I thought my husband might be a little irritated with me when I didn't follow him into the fray this past Saturday morning. Our two little early risers had scrambled through the dark to get to our room, rubbing their eyes and asking, "Is it morning yet?" Technically, it was, though the sun wouldn't rise [...]