Tales & Tips

Track practice at East High began the first Monday in March, Coach Raffensperger asking me to continue working with the distance runners...

In the days and weeks after the initial practice my life fell into a rhythm – walks around the neighborhood in the morning to strengthen...

Liz drove me over to Finkbine golf course for the first meet on September 3rd so I could cheer on the Iowa team, expecting the event...

The headline on page two in the April 8th edition of the Press Citizen read “Two Die in Single Car Crash.” Dad and his current girlfriend...

The second weekend of August, Alice and I rode a Greyhound bus into Des Moines to be with Ashley. Liz was in Sturgeon Bay with her...

Working full-time at Howard Johnson’s with a broken ankle had been a pain in the ass – but there were many things in my life that were a...