Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
The food truck held its own on a lake so cold ice vapors swirled around it. Yellow letters on a red sign both identified its product and offered a spot of color on a gray horizon stretched wide. The tableaux told the story of Midwestern resolve, innovation, recreation and industry. Inside the truck, Dale and [...]
Yesterday, as I made my last airport run of a perfectly busy relative season, I wrote a little thank you note in my head to the great state of Wisconsin and to all my loves who made such efforts to travel here. Our spontaneous family get-togethers require planes to take off and land on time; [...]
My son Vinnie and daughter in-law Danni discovered a little slice of Italy right here in Wisconsin and we couldn't be more thrilled for them (and for us). Located on the coast of Lake Pepin, the Villa Bellezza winery offers everything one might expect in an Italian winery -- lush vineyards, a cobblestone courtyard, delicious [...]
Thanks to the owner/developer of one iconic Up North destination, we discovered another. Lee Bergsbaken, who rotated his crops six years ago and grew Wisconsin's prettiest Sunflower Festival, spent a little time chatting with us Saturday afternoon and urged us to check out the Hammen Family Orchard, Cider Mill and Winery. So, after a quick [...]
Shortly after we marked the end of our active parenting years, our daughter Katherine gave us a little pep talk from her apartment located a maddening 2,078.4 miles from home. “You should call these the Bloody Mary years,” she said. Her idea to rebrand our empty nest life in that kind-of-Wisconsin way sprang from a [...]