This has been a tough week for our friend Carri Palmer and her whole family. Last week was the funeral of her grandfather Nauta- and the very morning of Cliff’s funeral, grandmother Nauta also passed away. (Velma had been in the hospital and was not doing well.) So it was loss piled upon loss. Carri
Well, we are almost through our first weekend of performances of this wonderful, entertaining musical at the Racine Theater Guild. My best friend Marshall Anderson came to the afternoon matinee and LOVED it- and he is a very exacting critic of anything theatrical. (He’s head of the theater department at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater). So
I hope you will like this story as much as I like telling it. This past Sunday the Racine Theater Guild hosted a special 75th Birthday Party for Packy- (short for Pachyderm) - the elephant mascot for the Racine Children’s Theater, which has been in continuous existence for three quarters of a century bringing live
Actually, her name isn’t Martha- but because she guards her privacy, I will call her Martha. She is a member of Holy Communion, and I don’t know her very well at all- but I do know that life has not been easy for her at all, money is very scarce for her, and she is
I’ll make this quick- really! Late on Wednesday afternoon, Kathy noticed that for some reason the rear passenger side tire on my car was completely flat. I counted myself lucky that it happened when I was safely parked in my own garage and not on some wild good chase to who-knows-where. It turns out that
Yesterday, at LONG last, I played my first tennis match of the summer with my favorite opponent, Dave Krueger. Life just got in the way until now, but I am still sad and disgusted with myself that I allowed a whole month to go by without even touching a racket, a month that I can’t
Doesn’t this picture look almost fake, like computer-generated special effects from a movie? Well it’s real- and our young friend Anneka Barrow is one of those lucky people flying through the air on this ride at Navy Pier. (And that’s the famous Navy Pier Ferris Wheel to the right.) This was just one of the
How fun to be able to turn from young lovers - Katie and Jacob, Jill and Ryan - to another kind of love story. Sunday afternoon was the celebration of the 65th anniversary of Bob and Trudy Tobias, and what a sweet and poignant occasion this was. All kinds of friends and family members gathered
Aren’t they adorable?!? That’s one of our favorite young people from Holy Communion, Katie Rouse, who is now Katie McPherson because of the handsome young man standing with her, Jacob. Katie’s wedding was one of two which we attended this weekend- the other, Friday afternoon, was for Jill Baker - Carthage grad, turned Holy Communion
