Getaway!

Spontaneity as a couple when you have a family is extremely hard to achieve. Back when Tom and I still had 5 children at home, getting to leave town for a change of scenery involved complicated logistical planning. So much planning, in fact, that vacations seemed more trouble than they were worth. [...]

Read Full Post »

Bullies, Bullies Everywhere

There’s a lot of talk today about bullying. Today on MSNBC there was an article about how “bullying” is starting earlier and earlier. The problem of mean children that has always existed is being exacerbated by early childcare where children are thrust from babyhood on into a survival-of-the-fittest environment. You learn early in daycare that [...]

Read Full Post »

Thunderbolts of Freedom *Updated*

*Update* The program with Tom Jones is scheduled to air on Thursday, July 3, at 2pm Central time. You can listen live at our website or listen to the podcast any time.
I interviewed an astronaut today who spent 52 days in space on four separate Space Shuttle missions, and took three space walks at the [...]

Read Full Post »

Father’s Day

Do you have a favorite memory of your dad or time spent with him? I’m reading a book right now that was published by Hope School in Milwaukee’s inner city. The book is called Our Stories, Our Words, and the book reads like one long primal cry for missing fathers. As the teens tell their [...]

Read Full Post »

IT’S NOT GOOD ENOUGH!

Wednesday on the Crosstalk Show I host (2pm Central, listen live at our website) we will be discussing American affluenza and how the economic downturn and the high cost of fuel is already changing how some live their lives. We’ll be addressing the ridiculous expectations of young people today and the lack of contentment that [...]

Read Full Post »

Tom Schlueter – An Introduction

Let the bright Seraphim in
burning row their loud uplifted
angel-trumpets blow.
Let the cherubic host, in tuneful
choir, touch their immortal
harps with golden wire.
Let the bright Seraphim in
burning row their loud uplifted
angel-trumpets blow…
(Handel, from Samson)
I’d like you to meet my husband, Tom Schlueter, who sometimes gets mentioned here but who has never been formally introduced in the [...]

Read Full Post »

Restaurant with a View

This looks like a very ugly industrial building, but it really is the restaurant with the best view going. It sits in a precarious position on the highest mountain in Germany, on the border of Austria. Tom was talking to me about eating there and feeling wedged into a little crevice on this massive mountain. [...]

Read Full Post »