Formerly excellent drinking skills, which improved greatly during Covid…..golf...

Sweet 16 in Bookstore Basketball with no scholarship athletes on our team

Retired casual

Brown mumblers…..means I like a true Wisconsin Brandy Manhattan. I also like beer. Not hoppy stuff, but pilsners, lagers, ambers and weissbiers. I also have become a fan of good red wines. Italian barolos and brunellos, French Bordeaux’s and California Cabernets.

Watch what they do, not what they say

I thank God for the wisdom and kindness of Fr. Mike Heppen, CSC. He helped me greatly over the years……now I have the good fortune of direction from Fr. Nate Wills. And finally there’s Pascal’s Wager.

"Happy Trails" by Roy Rogers and a very eclectic taste in music.

“Run it and let's get the hell out of here”.....Vince Lombardi said this to Bart Starr about the last play in The Ice Bowl.....ok, it wasn't an ND coach, but it's a great quote.

.......Two kids who are alums, brewcitydomer and Beer30Light and a third who went to a university where they currently care more about the students than Notre Dame did with my kids (shame on Notre Dame)............ I like C.S. Lewis, Stephen Ambrose and like to read US History thanks to Fr. Blantz.

I treasure my Notre Dame years, think often about the wonderful friendships I made, reflect on how I grew emotionally, but I have trouble with the university leadership.

It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated.”
― Hilaire Belloc,