Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
My second favorite Christmas tree stands tall and strong in the middle of City Park. My favorite is my own. But that second favorite tree? That's our community's, and every year during the holiday season it offers us every good thing about the season. The lights on that tree stand for hope and beauty in [...]
It’s hard to say who had more fun last night at the Appleton Christmas Parade, our five-year old or his new 101-year old friend, Pauline. Both enjoyed rides right down the center of the parade route, courtesy of the Fox Cities Cycling Association. Both waved enthusiastically throughout the whole route. And both can’t wait to [...]
So proudly we hailed Rocky Bleier this weekend, the grand marshal of the country’s largest Flag Day parade. The Appleton native, army veteran, Purple Heart award recipient and four-time Super Bowl champion led one of the best Flag Day parades we’ve seen. He worked the crowd ahead of the parade, shaking hands, especially with fellow [...]
We are, we agreed last night as we sat munching grilled burgers in the shadow of a park that had hosted us all weekend, lucky ducks. In one weekend we experienced nearly all of the summer activities we’d been dreaming about since last fall. We swam every day in the public pool across the street [...]
If you ask me and the two little elves at my side, the best way to watch the Appleton Christmas Parade is on a rickshaw peddled by your extremely athletic friend smack dab down the middle of the route. "This is the best night of my life," one of the elves shouted repeatedly as he [...]