The Sadler's Stories Video Series

narratives about my experiences, relationships, memories, and life

Back in 2020, I decided to start producing a new series of videos. In previous years, I had produced a number of videos talking about my personal life and experiences, and viewers kept asking for more of that sort. Like many people in my family, I enjoy telling tales. So I thought it was about time I begin shooting videos with stories people might find interesting or meaningful. I called them, understandably though unimaginatively enough, “Sadler’s Stories”. I’ve enjoyed engaging in the reminiscence evoked in filming each of them

In terms of subject-matters, they range over a vast number of topics. People and pets, schooling and projects, places and events, as well as cuisine, sports, gaming, and other enjoyable matters. Injuries and illness, and all sorts of other stuff. They span the time from my early childhood to recent years.

If there are stories in here whose titles pique your interest, by all means, check them out. You can click the link and go straight to the video. So if you’ve been wondering about the person behind all the videos, podcasts, blog posts, and other writings, you might enjoy checking out these narratives

Here are all of the Sadler’s Stories videos I have produced and released up to this point:

• Story Number 1: Max's Tavern and the Surf and Turf Bet

• Story Number 2: Ranging Over The Countryside When I Lived on Glacier Pass By Wales, Wisconsin

• Story Number 3: A Weird Chairperson at the Political Science Conference in Chicago

• Story Number 4: The Old German Soldier Whose Story I Heard In Lebanon Missouri

• Story Number 5: Looking Over Promotion and Tenure Binders from Fayetteville State University

• Story Number 6: Working At The Shakey's Pizza Joint In Waukesha

• Story Number 7: The Sassy Cat: We Made Friends First (And Had A Great 12 Years Together)

• Story Number 8: The Books Yoshihiro Gave Me In Our Modern Philosophy Class

• Story Number 9: Three Times I Saw The Green Packers Play At Stadiums In Milwaukee & Green Bay

• Story Number 10: Our Family Boat and Camping Trip Down the Mississippi

• Story Number 11: Getting Stung By Yellowjackets | Learning Lessons About These Vicious Wasps

• Story Number 12: Vacuuming The Library During My First Year At University Lake School

• Story Number 13: Tearing Ligaments in My Left Knee In My 40s Out At Montauk Beach

• Story Number 14: My Great-Uncle Hubert Lemrise | One Of The Best-Read People I Have Ever Known

• Story Number 15: The Suits My Mother Bought Me At Our Last Christmas Break Together

• Story Number 16: Remembering My Uncle Aime Lemrise (1947-2021)

• Story Number 17: Taking A Computer Class With My Dad back in 1981

• Story Number 18: Adopting My Cats, Little Girl & Little Boy (originally D'Artangan & Porthos)

• Story Number 19: My Dad and the Calamander Chest Story | From Nine Horrors and a Dream

• Story Number 20: My Family's Connection with Monarch Butterflies In Life, Grief, and Death

• Story Number 21: Getting My Wisdom Teeth Pulled | A Terrible & Traumatic Dentistry Experience

• Story Number 22: Playing Fullback (Defender) On Soccer Teams In Childhood And Later On

• Story Number 23: Fixing A Slow Flood at Fayetteville State University

• Story Number 24: Cricket The Christmas Kitten

• Story Number 25: Driving Home In A Winter Storm In Indiana

• Story Number 26: Finding Out About & Making Arrangements After My Mother's Death

• Story Number 27: The Summer I Had Mono Between Freshman and Sophomore Years of High School

• Story Number 28: The Cats Mieux and Monkey | Two Rescues Who Became Part Of My Feline Family

• Story Number 29: My Job and Training as a Teen Peer Educator In Waukesha County In The 1980s

• Story Number 30: The Summer of Four Jobs (Factory, Tree-Cutting, Walmart, then Campus Security)

• Story Number 31: Wargames and Role Playing Games In My Childhood and Early Adulthood

• Story Number 32: Going To See Movies At Drive In Theaters In My Childhood and Teen Years

• Story Number 33: Sadler's Stories 33 | The Woods, The Meadows, & the Kickapoo Trails (Delafield & Wales, Wisconsin)

• Story Number 34: Christmas Times at Chez Lemrise | Memories of My Family And The Holidays

• Story Number 35: Cooking, Baking, Food, & My Family | How I Grew Up And Learned In My Childhood

• Story Number 36: Card Games I Played From My Childhood Into My 20s

• Story Number 37: Hot Air Balloons Landing On Glacier Pass In The Hills of Delafield in the 70s

• Story Number 38: Staying At My Uncle Aime's House Near Tonica, Illinois During Graduate School

• Story Number 39: How I Started, Enjoyed and Quit Smoking Tobacco (Cigarettes and Cigars)

• Story Number 40: Getting Injured In A Bike Crash In Carbondale Illinois During Graduate School

• Story Number 41: The Long Lonely Drive From Carbondale To Brookfield After My Mother's Death

• Story Number 42: My Enjoyment of Running As A Child, A Teenager, and 20-Something

• Story Number 43: Going to Summerfest, Museums, and Performances in Downtown Milwaukee

• Story Number 44: Catching a Nearly-State-Record White Bass While Fishing With My Dad

• Story Number 45: My Appreciation and Love For Flowers | Family, Landscape, and Lifestyle

• Story Number 46: Getting An Award For "Succeeding Despite The Odds" At Graduation

• Story Number 47: Memories of Sleeping Together As One Big Pack With the Dogs and the Cat

• Story Number 48: The School of Aesthetics and Cosmetology In Waukesha, Wisconsin

• Story Number 49: My Forays Into Homebrewing Beers In College and In My 30s

• Story Number 50: My Love For Classic Heavy Metal Music From Childhood To Present Time

• Story Number 51: There And Back Again: Scenic Drives Across The Indiana Countryside

• Story Number 52: Taking My Kids On Visits To The Pumpkin Farm During Halloween Season

• Story Number 53: The Book That Got Away | Should I Have Stolen Hegel’s Phenomenology?

• Story Number 54: The Coldness Of Winters Past Growing Up In Wisconsin

• Story Number 55: How and Why I Began Producing Videos About Philosophy in YouTube

• Story Number 56: A Lost Fantasy Play Produced In My Sixth Grade Drama Class

• Story Number 57: My First Days Entering The US Army in February 1989 (Travel & Basic)

• Story Number 58: My Fascination With And Enjoyment Of Fireworks From Childhood Onward

• Story Number 59: Tutoring and Friendships with Chinese Students During College

• Story Number 60: Remembering “Sig” Utgaard and The Rosetta News Book Store in Carbondale

• Story Number 61: The Weirdest Date I Ever Went On (Seeing Cook, Thief, Wife & Her Lover)

• Story Number 62: Recalling Libraries Important In My Life From Childhood To 20 Years Old

• Story Number 63: Recalling Libraries In My Life During College and University Study

• Story Number 64: Libraries In My Life During My Early Years As A University Professor

• Story Number 65: Libraries In My Life After Moves to Kingston, NY and Milwaukee, WI

• Story Number 66: The Summer of 1994: Franklin, Sheboygan Falls, & Rhine Center, Wisconsin

• Story Number 67: Slot Car Tracks, Cars, and Racing In My Childhood (1970s-1980s)

• Story Number 68: A Professor Emeritus Dying Doing What He Loved

• Story Number 69” Skateboarding During My Childhood and Teenage Years (1970s 1980s)

• Story Number 70: The Boombass (One Man Band) Instrument Manufactured in the 1950s

• Story Number 71: The Midnight Sales And Services Crew Back In High School

• Story Number 72: Stumbling Across Monet’s Water Lillies In The Musée de l’Orangerie

• Story Number 73: Uncle-FatherJean-Marie "John" Lemrise And The Tattooed Scapulary

• Story Number 74: My Neighbors' Dog Atlas And His Near Escape To The Streets Of Milwaukee

• Story Number 75: My Freshman Year Of College And The French Language House

• Story Number 76: Meeting Andi In High School, In Milwaukee, And On Facebook

For those who are interested in hearing more stories about my life, my experiences, and people who were important in my life, I have several other videos that are not in the Sadler’s Stories

• My Experience Teaching in Prisons

• My Working Life, Then and Now

• My Academic Teaching Career 1999-2022 | Colleges and Universities I Taught At Over Two Decades

• The Move to Milwaukee

• Researching the 1930s Christian Philosophy Debates

• About Being Adopted

• Three Fathers - By Birth, Adoption, and Choice | Carl, Anton, and Francis

• Losing My Mom When I Was 29 And She Was 53

• Losing My Dad When I Was 11 And He Was 36

• My Personal Experience with Depression; Reflections On Living With Depression from 2013

• My Personal Experience With & Reflections Upon Depression 10 Years Later

I’ll update this page as I produce new videos. I hope you enjoy whichever ones you do watch!