Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
Sr. Winifred wasn't the nicest teacher I've ever had. She booted my 10-year old self from piano lessons permanently because she said I wasn't practicing enough, which I found terribly insulting (even if it was true). But, she taught me and my hooligan classmates to sing a simple round that sounded so beautiful when we [...]
We made the happy discovery that several farms near our cabin are growing sunshine this year, the perfect antidote to 2020. Fields of sunflowers stretch straight to the horizon and reminded me (I apologize for this) of the Brady Bunch classic, It's A Sunshine Day. I think i'll go for a walk outside nowThe summer [...]
My friend Catherine is neowiser than I, so I always say yes to the adventures she proposes. Take Thursday night, for example. She asked me if I wanted to go shoot pictures of a comet and I said"Yes!" She suggested we leave at 9:30 and head to Plamann Park and I said "Perfect!" Then, I [...]
In addition to being Super Bowl Sunday, which stubbornly takes place even when the Packers aren't playing in it, and Groundhog Day, a holiday our family has embraced with procrastinating pleasure, yesterday was also a palindrome 02/02/2020. It's the same forward and backward. Of course I love palindromes. I'm a mom. I have a niece [...]
I’m learning to love in November what I love and admire in most people I know. Stripped of October’s candy corn color and uncorrupted by December’s frantic glitz, November offers only this: gratitude. And that’s a lot. November is the friend you walk with on mornings so cold your eyes water and your nose runs [...]