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Dear friends,
We've been apart for so long now during this time of being safer at home that I've missed you. Sure, I might see some of you from a distance and give a longing wave as I run out for groceries, or from across the street while I'm out for my daily run and dog walk, or on an OnMilwaukee Facebook live, but it'll likely be a while before we can meet up somewhere for a beer together, in person, so I figured I'd let you know how I'm passing the time.
In addition to hours spent working and trying to keep the kids focused on schoolwork (ha ha ha), there's a lot of time in the day. This is some of what I've been seeing and doing during those hours. I hope you'll drop me a comment or two and let me know what you're doing, too.
We'll get through this, friends, and in the meantime, we're wholeheartedly #inthistogethermke.
Supporting restaurants
Supporting breweries
Voting
Reading a lot of books
Using more drive-thrus
Cooking more at home
Marveling at the kindness of strangers
Using home delivery more
Missing baseball
Enjoyed the walk chalk
Porch whiskey with my pal
Welcoming spring
Quarantining Wisconsinbly
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
