Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
Here's December's secret: there's magic in the air. And each sleeting windstorm carries it somewhere. It dusts the ground below your feet to lighten up your step and turns your boots to dancing shoes, your schlep to pirouette. The season can be tricky when folks carry such a load and all their Christmas wishes can't [...]
We spent an impossibly beautiful November afternoon at Salm's Hickory Hill Farm, where one of us took a horseback riding lesson and the other scurried around like a madwoman muttering to herself about golden hours, sunsets and the light. I'm not sure there's anything more beautiful than the golden hour of an autumn day, even [...]
Let’s live like Wisconsin in October and let the sun light us with unabashed glee even as winter looms. Let’s wink and shimmy our russet leaves, hoist them high and proud and then let them fall without regret. Let’s keep our rustic roads all spruced up so they’re always ready to welcome wanderers. And, when [...]
Appleton rocks, especially this past Saturday where, within a two mile stretch, you could watch a National Tree Climbing Championship, attend the first annual Irish Fest, walk through a peak-season Farmer's Market and enjoy Rhythms of the World, a celebration of multi-cultural generosity and transcendent beauty. After all of that, we were also lucky enough [...]
If regions had a flower, I'd like ours to be the sunflower. Friendly, unassuming and resilient, sunflowers meet raging storms with a wink and a Midwestern shoulder shrug. Then, they shake the rain off their petals, straighten their stems and stand tall again. They start each day with enviable cheer, turn their faces toward the [...]