Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
My Pap would have been proud. A polka-stomping Pennsylvania miner, he wore his Polishness with pride. Though he was a man of few words, Pap would have loved to chat with Krzysztof Krol, the Prince of Pierogi, and he would have been astonished to see a drive-through pierogi restaurant right here in Wisconsin. O jejku! [...]
You can grow a bumper crop of kindness and healthy veggies too, when you pair a a bunch of green thumbs with the biggest hearts around. That's what's happening around here, in a community plot managed by the nicest, most prolific group of gardeners in all the land. Located right behind the St. Joseph's Food [...]
In an August garden full of gems, tomatoes hang like rubies. We wait for them all year and then eat them as fast as our constitution allows. Homegrown tomatoes finally made their way to our neck of the woods and my salads couldn’t be happier. They showed up on our family text chain as well, [...]
I imagine they readied themselves as they made their way east toward Wisconsin, little wings linked, galoshes on, scarves thrown jauntily over their shoulders and then -- “One! Two! Three! Four! Five! Six! Seven! Eight! Schmiel! Schmazel! Hasenpfeffer incorporated!” -- a whole hive full of Laverne and Shirley-esque worker bees headed to work in a [...]
If you’re reading this from my post, then our daughter Molly has successfully foraged and then baked a delicious mulberry pie for her dad on Father’s Day. If you are reading this from another source, then please know we went out in a happy blaze of buttery crust and sugared berries. Either way, our house [...]