We unboxed a glorious sunset Tuesday night that turned out to be the last, perfect gift of this Christmas season. It is one thing to enjoy a beautiful sunset, it is quite another to watch it unfurl with someone who takes as much delight in such things as you do. That's what happened to my [...]
On the 28th anniversary of the day he died, I will honor my father’s legacy by enjoying its most tangible asset, the cabin he had built on a relatively isolated river in northern Wisconsin. A welcome respite from our ordinary lives in any season, that little beacon of peace and fresh air has taken on [...]
Turns out we were a smidge too late for the Sunflower Festival at Bergsbaken Farms this year, but we had one of those summer-perfect, Wisconsin-classic, is-this-a-great-state-or-what days anyway. We started our Saturday with the Cheesehead 5K (which was so fun it deserves its own post). Then we hit the Appleton Farmer's Market, headed Up North [...]
Oh, sure, we've had a couple of rough weeks here in Wisconsin, where the wind chill dipped so low it froze the tears in our eyes and no matter how hard we squinted at the TV screen we couldn't make those purple jerseys look green and gold, but guess what? We acclimated. In fact, just [...]