Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
Poignancy seeps into Wisconsin’s beauty when its weather confounds. Water leaks through lacy ice, sap runs early and that gorgeous carpet of snow, laid out thick with anticipation just weeks ago, shrinks back with a level of insecurity we don’t normally see here in the unabashed Midwest. All of our snowmobile trails are closed and [...]
If you want to enjoy winter, you just have to be a mitten-losing, snowball-making, snowflake-tasting, sled ride-whooping kid. It's easy! You can start with a cheap plastic saucer and just enough snow. Then find a big hill somewhere, settle your creaky old bones in and let 'er rip. I'll tell you what happens as you [...]
I am not always a fan of firsts. First day of school? I was the mother thinking, "Yes, you look adorable lugging that crisp oversized backpack on your tiny shoulders and looking at me with that big missing-tooth smile, but wouldn't you like to stay home with me a few more years? I can teach [...]
We talk a lot about the "feels like" temperature around here, because not knowing the difference between air temperature and wind chill could cost you a couple of digits or a nose. On Monday, for instance, the air temperature when I woke up read a balmy -8 degrees, but the "feels like" temperature, thanks to [...]
The older I get the more I appreciate the winter solstice. I love that it arrives so early in winter and offers us such a consistent example of hope. Before we even get a chance to get frustrated by the ice and wind, we already know it won't last. The temperature may dip low, but [...]