Photo by Phyllis Stokes
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, asks what could be more dominating at a lunch table than a former Wis. State Journal columnist? And the answer is two of them!
So it was as Susan Lambert Smith joined the keeper and Phyllis and Ian and Karen Smith at a Vista West lunch Monday, where the keeper and Susan, both of whom were longtime State Journal columnists at different times, dominated the conversation with rehashed column experiences from the time when newspapers mattered.
Susan received a compliment from Ian for a “Know Your Madisonian” column she wrote about him more years ago than is decent; and the keeper was gratified to hear from Susan how she had tried to follow the keeper’s example in patterning her column writing style to be as much out-of-the-office as possible.
The lunch only lacked former State Journal columnist George Hasselberg–next time, and was concluded with a Kickass photo op, and advice from the keeper to Susan that she has the same kind of responsibility to trees as the keeper expressed in his recently published book “Treeson, an APOLOGIA to Trees” for the paper that went into printing his column drivel. (Available from Amazon, bookstores and from the keeper at billstokesautor.com.)
The trees wait to hear from you, Susan!
Photo by Bill Stokes