Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
Note: I am reposting this in honor of Mile 13 because I was talking to current MoM artist Dan Navarro about how it all began. I wrote this post in 2013... Grammy winners and grandmas shared VIP status during Appleton's Mile of Music, a four-day festival that celebrated both music and the Midwest, elevated new [...]
The Parachute Show is coming to Appleton and I could not be more excited. A brainchild of Appleton native Hillary Reynolds and fellow LA-based, Wisconsin-born musician Madison Malone, the Parachute Show is an enchanted evening of light, laughter, love and, above all, talent. Pure & Weary host the show, which includes musicians, songwriters, poets and [...]
Extraordinary things happen when words marry music on a river bank under a wide open sky. There is love. Oh, there's love. I thought the setting might have been the most beautiful aspect of a wedding we attended Saturday, held outdoors on a quiet inlet on a perfect Wisconsin summer afternoon. Then, I saw our [...]
Mile 4 brought plenty of talent to Appleton this weekend. Some of our favorites included Wild Adriatic, Hubby Jenkins, Elle Winston, LOLO, Kristin Diable, and the Dreamers. But, what really struck us about this year's festival was the sophisticated talent of the homegrown performers. We watched Peridot fill the Lawrence Chapel with its soaring harmonies [...]
The last ornament hiding on a lower branch of our Christmas tree had the biggest story to tell and made the melancholy task of its removal all the more so. Our friend Trina gave us our "hope" ornament and I spotted it stubbornly clinging to the tree well after I thought I had taken down [...]