Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
Love grows surely in a frozen forest. Root tips touch. Nutrients pass along a mycorrhizal network. Tiny threads of life stretch from robust conifers to struggling saplings. Mother trees stand tall, sense stress send water block wind alert to danger. Oak, Maple, Hickory, Beech, Pine, Spruce and Fir Rise together. Spread their own branches. Bear [...]
I love when Wisconsin skies become an event. A sunrise stretches slowly over the dark sky and everyone pauses their busy morning to applaud. A golden sunset fades to purple as it bows to its reflection in a calm summer lake. An eclipse dares us all to risk irreversible blindness just to take a peak. [...]
The jaunting carts drew us to the Black Valley of Ireland, mainly because we're a literal family and "jaunting" sounded so cheerful and fun. So, we committed to one of the oldest tours in Ireland, the Gap of Dunloe Adventure tour, which involved an open boat ride across the Lakes of Killarney and a horse-drawn [...]
We each stuffed two euro into an honor box outside a sheep farm, and made our way up Carhoo Hill. None of us, not even the two people who had planned this excursion, had any idea what waited for us at the top. Wind whipped our hair as we hiked switchbacks passed an insultingly unimpressed [...]
Did you ever have a dream so unlikely you hardly even bothered to put it in words? I did. I dreamed of traveling to Ireland with my family to celebrate my husband's and my 60th birthdays. I might have mentioned this dream a time of two and, even though I have about a thousand pictures [...]