Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
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 [...]
My friend Tami invited me to practice goat yoga with her and I said, "Ewe've got to be kidding." Baaaaa ha ha. She goat-ed me into it. So, I packed up my yoga mat and a good supply of hand sanitizer and off we went to LaClare Farms, which turned out to be beautiful. I [...]
Until my brother in-law Dennis came to visit, we thought of the Oconto River as a recreational vehicle, transporting us via kayak, canoe, or inner tube from drop in point to cabin on frothy summer waves. It formed a scenic, babbling backdrop to the view from our front porch swing. Then Dennis arrived with his [...]