It's a Wonderful Life!

With all the fallout from the recent article in the La Crosse Tribune, I really am beginning to feel a bit like George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life!

So many have written really nice letters, sent emails, and just let me know that they read the article, and that they agree with it. This is really validating; sometimes we all feel as if the world would be better off, as George said, "If I'd never been born!"

But it wasn't true for him, it's not for me, AND it's not true for all of us everyday, hard-working, average folks who just try to do their best, both in their jobs, and in their lives.

So many people came out, on my new French Island route, and welcomed me as their mailman! It would have taken a very long time to get to know them without the article "paving the way".

One guy, yesterday, asked me if I was the mailman featured in the article. I said yes, I was.

"You don't look like him!" he responded.

Maybe he'll see the above photo by Festival Foods in La Crosse, and recognize me...
or, maybe he'll think I don't look like this guy either!