A few years ago my wife Sarah took up scrapbooking as a hobby. She started out by creating two photo scrapbooks in memory of her cousin that passed away after a battle with cancer. When I say scrapbook, I’m talking the Creative Memories type of book with photos, embellishments, page titles, and memories written to…
My wife and I attended a writing workshop led by Wisconsin author Jerry Apps this past weekend. The focus of the workshop was for attendees to revisit their personal history and learn how to turn those memories into a working document. Jerry said we wouldn’t be covering the publishing end of things – and he…
Dad could hardly wait for the lakes to freeze enough for him to go ice fishing. You could have sworn he was part or all Eskimo because he loved the cold and never wore a hat to cover his ears. He had extra-large and tough hands, most likely from doing concrete work in summer months. He…
It’s back to the lined paper school assignments this week. Here’s a tale with an abrupt ending – and we speculated the cat was hit by a car and somehow made it back to the house. Grammar and punctuation have been left as they were in the original document… Dusten My Cat and Me: A…
Pitcher Bob Humphreys‘ input was extremely important as I started doing research for my Milwaukee Brewers historical book, so I decided to create a full-length profile for him right here on the blog. Humphreys was born in Covington, Virginia on August 18, 1935. He loved baseball and basketball, playing both sports in high school and Hampden-Sydney…
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