by Jamie - Editor | Mar 10, 2021 | One More Thing
What’s in a Name? by Tyler Sjostrom Among the early memories of my school-age life are a few that stand out for no particular reason – bread bags in my snow boots, the rusty, red playground slide that would probably be nicknamed “The Lawsuit” today, and thinking...
by Jamie - Editor | Jan 13, 2021 | One More Thing
To Be a Grandkid by Tyler Sjostrom One of life’s great delights, and one that we’re too busy scraping our knees to fully understand while it’s happening, is having grandparents. For me, and probably for so many readers, my grandparents were always just there. And...
by Jamie - Editor | Dec 10, 2020 | One More Thing
It’s the Thought that Counts by Tyler Sjostrom “Papa…the cake…boom!” So goes the telling of an ill-fated birthday tiramisu according to my two-year-old son, resident raconteur, and foremost deliverer of sick burns in our household. While his bullet...
by Jamie - Editor | Nov 14, 2020 | One More Thing
The Red Cottage by Tyler Sjostrom It was the fall of 2013 when my now-wife and I first encountered what would become our most visited vacation destination. On a lark, we decided to take a weekender to Door County, and in our hasty planning, happened upon the perfect...
by Jamie - Editor | Oct 10, 2020 | One More Thing
Raised by Witches by Tyler Sjostrom Parents are always, always wrong. If you think I’m wrong, I can only assume that you are yourself a parent, which only reinforces just how wrong you are. And this pervasive, indefatigable wrongness of parents is never more evident...
by Jamie - Editor | Sep 3, 2020 | One More Thing
Where Everybody Knows Your Name by Tyler Sjostrom On the first shift of my first bar job, I made the mistake of wearing a collared shirt and gelling my hair. The regulars, a merry band of misfits and pranksters, taught me almost immediately that I was not in the...
