Bill grew up on the South Side of Chicago, with Rainbow Beach literally out his back gate. Growing up, when not lifeguarding, swimming to the crib, or sailing with this father's canoe, he spent hours sitting on the seawall, appreciating the power and peace of the water. Throughout our marriage, we spent lots of time on the North Shore with Lake Superior as a seawall stand-in. In 2021, an opportunity arose to become true Minnesotans and buy a lake cabin up north. I couldn't p

Bill taught Social Studies to high schoolers for 26 years. Somewhere along that ride, he incorporated what he called 'Friday Reports'...

55 Apparently, yellow roses and violets are the two flowers that represent a 50th anniversary. For my 50th birthday, in the midst of a...

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When Bill and I got engaged, Grandma Jo felt badly because she couldn't afford to get us 'something nice'. I was a 2nd year teacher and...

Two years ago (nearly to the hour) I arrived at school after spending the night with Bill at the hospital. Kevin had taken my place at...

"Edge to edge." That was Bill's shoveling mantra and it was rare that any of us lived up to his standards. I'm a 'lazy' shoveler; he was...

My dad was a salesman. Having grown up with an mentally unstable mother and an absent father, he learned at a young age it was up to...

After the first mixtape Bill made for me, The 12th of Never , sung by Johnny Mathis, became our song. Saying 'the 12th of never'...