Family
Hometown
Gleason, Wisconsin In April (16-25, 2025), I booked a trip 'home' to Gleason, Wisconsin, as my older sister, Arlene, a resident of Pine Crest, was ill. It is always better...
Daughters
It is a gusty rainy afternoon. Storms sweep across France. I've turned 76 this birthday. Over coffee and croissant at the Mount Drejet brasserie I consider: I have raised five...
Collegiale de Notre Dame
Semur-en-Auxios, France The weather in France has turned cold, between 30-34F. I hear guffaws all the way from Northern Wisconsin. A blizzard sweeps across the northern plains and into the...
Kippenheim
20 September (2022), Rachel Lavin (friend) and Francine Pease (sister), Patrice and I visited Freiburg im Breisgau with a side trip to Patrice's family (father’s side) to their pre-WWII home...
Uncle Kurt and Holocaust
On 16-17 October, 2019. The United States Holocaust Museum sponsored Patrice's 89-year-old Uncle Kurt Maier, Emeritus Librarian, Library of Congress (German collection). Kurt, a Holocaust survivor with a wicked...
Honor Flight 2 September 2019
On Labor Day week-end, 2019 I joined 200+ veterans and guardians on the local Honor Flight To Washington, D.C. I went grudgingly... Marcia, my daughter, had long ago signed me...
Louts, Predators and Daughters
I am a hard case for the homilists of Holy Wisdom, the Benedictine Monastery, Madison, Wisconsin, where I attend mass. I tend to zone out. However, the first reading during last...
Rednecks and a wedding
My daughter, Michelle, married Nigel Howard, formerly British Army, Royal Engineers (Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD)). Think the movie Hurt Locker and Jeremy Renner, the difference being the British Army does...
