Like many parents of busy people scattered far and near, we hold precious the days we spend together. Our Christmas gift is early morning laughter, our Thanksgiving gratitude is a table full of chatty faces we love, and our summer hiatus is the stretch of sunny days during which we are a party of six, [...]
Dear Internet, I’m not that nerdy, I swear. I know how that last post made it seem. Believe me, if I had seen pictures of some teenage girl huddled in front of a computer screen cuddling an accordion, I would’ve thought she was a nerd too. I don’t blame you Internet. We don’t really have [...]
We offered to get Molly a Smartphone for her birthday next month, but she politely declined. She's been consistent in her loyalty to old school forms of communication, and only reluctantly hauled a lap top to a summer writing program she attended in Boston. "I found a perfect study spot," she told me -- not [...]
Our friends' cherry tree stands as their perfect metaphor. Bright, strong, resilient, exceedingly generous and firmly rooted, the tree invites visitors and provides them with a hearty snack. It shades and supports them, and offers year-round entertainment. Its bumper crop of cherries might sag a lesser tree, but Pete and Mary Abraham's tree maintains perfect [...]
With creativity, artistry and contagious pride, Shawano County has become the barn quilt capital of Wisconsin. On bright red, weathered gray and crisp white barns all over the county, 297 quilts stitch the history of a community devoted to faith, family and farming. Launched in the summer of 2010, the Barn Quilt Project has developed [...]