Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
On a somewhat stormy Saturday morning, my friend Catherine and I took a foraging class and this is what I learned: 1. You can eat almost any plant in Wisconsin, except the ones that will kill you in a prompt and painful manner. 2. You can forage almost anywhere in Wisconsin, except where it is [...]
Did you ever pop into a bakery to buy a single treat and walk out with a dozen? That's what happened to me Wednesday afternoon when I popped into Whisk and Arrow to buy a friend of mine an after school snack. Tucked away on a busy street in a building that, ironically, used to [...]
Owing to its state slogan "land of 10,000 lakes", I never thought of Minneapolis as a river city. It always seemed like a lake kind of town. But, born, as it was, on both banks of the Mississippi, a river city it is, and I love the history of American river cities, possibly because I [...]
A trio of plow horses eating grass in a field could not have enjoyed a fresher Farm to Fork experience than Molly, Vince and I had Saturday morning in Madison. We sat by the window at the appropriately named Graze and watched restaurant employees wheel a cart through the Farmer's Market across the street to [...]
Our garden from hell is planted with good intentions and a whole bunch of other things we never intended to grow. An evil hosta lurks in the northwest corner. It points its giant spiky leaves at us and hisses a little when we try to sneak past. God know what henchmen scurry around underneath that [...]