Our family expanded exponentially when our sons married their wives, and now we get to have loved ones in nearly every port of call. How great is that? But, you know what would be even better? All of the people we love living in one perfect little city. We began our sly campaign this past [...]
There’s snow way Wisconsin trick or treaters will ever let a little weather keep them from celebrating Halloween. Thank goodness for hardy stock! We saw dinosaurs and super heroes, princesses and dragons, a couple of Imposters and a unicorn. Our first trick or treater of the night was really just a nice young man out [...]
I was walking near my neighborhood, late at night when my eyes beheld a spooktacular sight. For the Munnsters turned their yard into another cool disguise So, this Halloween, you'd all be wise To do the Mash. Go do the Munnster Mash. The Munnster Mash -- there is a graveyard smash! Go see the Mash! [...]
Like everyone else at Appleton's Octoberfest last Saturday, we had a "guten tag" following the lederhosen through an amiable crowd. What we especially love about this festival is its commitment to area charities and its profusion of tasty food. College Avenue becomes a kind of open air international market during Octoberfest, with high end booths [...]
My favorite kind of luck wafts up from the shepherd's pie you eat in a park on a warm Friday night in September. It sails out over a gathering crowd and touches each heart with its glow. Notes carry that kind of luck and they come from the cheerfullest instruments -- fiddles, flutes, bagpipes and [...]