Bob Weirauch

Contributing Editor and Poet-in-Residence

Bob Weirauch was born February 1948 in Wausau, Wisconsin the youngest of five children. He graduated from Wausau Newman High School, attended the University of Wisconsin and North Central Technical College. He holds degrees in Sales and Business Management.

Bob is the former President and CEO and majority stake holder in Wausau Financial Systems, Inc. a computer hardware and software sales and service company. He is the founder of Safe Assured, a digital child ID System approved by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. He is a founding member and Director of Washington County Bank, St Paul, MN, founding member and Director of First American Bank, Hudson WI, and former stakeholder and Director of Aqua Finance.

Bob has served on many commercial Board of Directors as well as many Non-Profit Boards. Today, Bob is still active in business. He and his partners own two hotels and a hotel management company splitting his time between Wisconsin and Arizona. Bob is an avid collector of Native American art, crafts and artifacts.

In his spare time Bob likes to E-Bike, jet ski, boat, golf, hang out with friends and family, gamble, drink and write.

Posts by Bob Weirauch

Christmas in Scottsdale

Our Contributing Editor, Poet-in-Residence, and apparently Grump-in-Chief, Bob Weirauch, is at least his honest self when writing about Christmas. He's socializing this holiday season, perhaps only with himself, but socializing nevertheless.

Truth is, he's really not that grumpy, or frumpy, or stumpy. In fact, he's pretty spunky, funky, but, quite possibly, after all of his holiday feasts, he could get a little chunky.

Lord of the Rings

Our Contributing Editor, Bob Weirauch, doesn't wear a lot of jewelry. Never did, never will (sort of). But he has worn some wedding rings, and then he loses them, and miraculously (and we do mean miraculously) he finds them. But he doesn't always find them, sometimes they find him. Actually, in his retirement, he's learning a valuable lesson: Perhaps it's best if he retires them, too. It's time to read a short story from Bob.

Me Mother Was Irish You Know

Our Contributing Editor, Bob Weirauch, traveled to Ireland to learn some truths about his family. Truths that were a wee bit difficult to come by. That's because Bob's mother, Mary Alice, had a knack for telling stories with a few malapropisms. Nothing quite so travel-related like Mike Tyson's famous malaprop (now that he just lost a fight to a non-fighter): "I might just fade into Bolivian", but one person who will not fade is Bob; his stories about stories are just too good.

Phone-O-Phobia, or Reflections On An Obsession (or whatever)!

Our Contributing Editor, and resident Poet-in-Residence, Bob Weirauch, ditches his Iambic Pentameter, Haiku, Sonnets, Odes, and Free Verse for some straight-up narrative about his (and possibly ours) addiction to cell phones. Drumroll please...no, make that ringtone please...

Sycamore Wind Songs

Our Contributing Editor and Poet-in-Residence, Bob Weirauch, teaches us that if we listen closely to the songs of the old Sycamore tree, perhaps we'll learn a lesson or two. If we become better listeners, to the sounds of the world around us, we can become better humans. It's worth a try. Maybe we need more than the cliche that instructs us to stop and smell the roses. We might be better served if we stopped and listened to the voices of nature, it might bring us closer together.

Reflections: Talking To My Dad

Bob writes to us about the talks he has with his father, even though Charlie has been gone for 54 years. Gone, but not forgotten, even for a day, even for a father/son talk, even for forever.

Reflections: That Green DeSoto.

Our always moving Contributing Editor, Bob Weirauch, has been in a melancholy mood lately. Of course, we wish Bob the very best as he reflects on his life, but we must admit, his writing, regardless of his mood, is our reward. Today, Bob travels back in time, and we're more than willing to ride along. But this time it's in the family car, and not just any car, it's the DeSoto! Cheers to the Green DeSoto.

Reflections on Roots and Photos (About Moving On)

“We are the custodian of our culture and if not remembered, how else do we pass it to future family members?” That's the question our Contributing Editor, Bob Weirauch, is asking himself. The answer can be found in what's NOT in his garbage can.