Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Saturday, December 23, 2017

Guest Post: Your child probably knows the truth about Santa

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by Kate Ellis-Davies , Nottingham Trent University Most parents lie to their children. It’s usually done to get the children to behave th...
Friday, December 08, 2017

Guest Post: Did early Christians believe that Mary was a teenager?

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Christopher A. Frilingos , Michigan State University On Nov. 13, a fifth Alabama woman came forward to accuse Roy Moore , former judge and...
Friday, June 19, 2015

A Grammar Quiz for Father's Day

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Courtesy of grammarly.com/grammar-check and just in time for Father's Day, we have this test of grammar acumen. Check your skills and ...
Saturday, December 24, 2011

Christmas in Milwaukee - 1967

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Back in 2008, I offered my recollections of how my family celebrated Christmas as I was growing up in the 1960s and 1970s. Now I have s...
Wednesday, April 07, 2010

That Old Nougat Cross

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Many have no doubt heard the story about a syncretistic Christmas display in a Japanese department store that featured a prominent figure o...
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Friday, January 15, 2010

Images from Milwaukee's Marquette High c. 1952

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Through the magic of eBay , I recently acquired the 1952 edition of The Flambeau , the yearbook of Marquette University High School in Milw...
Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Community Theatre - Part Four

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On three previous occasions (usually toward the middle of the year), I have posted reminiscences of my summers with St. Bernard's Studio...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Christmas in Milwaukee - 1959 and Later

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This past weekend on public radio's A Prairie Home Companion , Broadway director and actor Walter Bobbie reminisced about celebrating Ch...
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Saturday, June 14, 2008

Addenda to the 'Getting High' Series

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Back in February, I posted four videos I called the "Getting High" series. Two of the videos were from Wisconsin (the top of the ...
Sunday, February 03, 2008

Super-Happy Birthday-Bowl

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Joanne Michalak Sincere would have relished the idea of her birthday and the Super Bowl coinciding. This was not just because she was a grea...
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Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Another Anniversary

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August was a big month for weddings in my family. A few days ago was my parents' 50th wedding anniversary. Today marks the 70th annivers...
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Friday, August 24, 2007

A Special Anniversary

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Were they still with us, today would be my parents' 50th wedding anniversary. Reproduced below (in two sections, scanned from a tabloid ...
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