Starting in 1979, I got a job driving the town vehicle that pulled the Luck Winter Carnival royalty in local parades.  I got the job […]

Around my sophomore year in high school (1977), I got a part-time job working at the Carson Candy warehouse in Luck, Wisconsin.  The business had […]

Speeding Ticket Number 1 The first traffic ticket I ever got was while driving my first car, a 1966 Chevy Caprice.  I bought it from […]

The other day I was trying to remember some of the music concerts I had been to. Here is a list, not including many small […]

High School Chat I would say the earliest exposure I had to what would become the internet is when I was attending Luck Public High […]

One of the biggest employers in the area where I grew up as a teenager was the Stokely Van Camp bean processing factory in Frederic, […]

My first memories from childhood started when I was 6 years old and our family moved for a short period to Tucson, Arizona. My mother […]

Dream Category: Tornadoes I grew up in northwestern Wisconsin on the edge of tornado alley.  I have never seen a tornado in real life.  A […]

One of the money-making activities for me as a teenager was picking cucumbers from a field on my parent’s property.  I must admit that I […]

One of the first jobs I had as a teenager in the mid 1970s was a busboy at a place near St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin […]

Home Away From Home My first year of college was at the University of Wisconsin – Stout located in Menomonie, Wisconsin. It was a one […]

Throughout his life, my grandfather, Holger Koch, took on the role of director, actor, and musician in communities where he lived. It was his way […]

A few months ago my wife and I started to record episodes of “Jeopardy!”.  We would watch it together and pause playback immediately after each […]

It was an agreement between my mother (Danish Lutheran) and my father (Polish Catholic) that my sister and I would be raised in the Catholic […]

My participation in the Dr. Fred Urquhart research program to locate the over-wintering destination of the Monarch buttery was a brief blip in the life […]

In the evening of 5/28/2007, Memorial Day, Elaine rushed me to the emergency room.  That morning I started to feel an intense pain in my […]

I was waiting to post this topic for when I had more accurate details about it.  I wanted to contact the other participants to see […]

I have two anecdotes to share regarding a child who ran away from home. The child is me; I did not run; and I can […]

I thought I would cover my experiences playing softball and baseball during the early parts of my life.  (I haven’t played in over 30 year). […]

The only pets my family had when I was growing up were dogs.  They are still my favorite type of pet, although I have never […]