Rain feels softer on this side of the hill, a refreshing pause rather than a full stop on the day’s agenda. We, who don’t care too much about the way our hair looks or our style flows, can point our faces toward the rain and let it soothe our lines. Rain sounds like peace, staccato [...]
One week after my camera bonked me so hard on the bridge of my nose that I saw stars and nursed a visible wound, I invited her to a spectacular outing. Observers of our little mishap might have concluded that I had simply forgotten I had my camera strapped around my neck, so when I [...]
Christopher Cross could have scored our recent trip to Door County, where we escaped the hazards of Goat Fest by sailing off into the lovely, though a little choppy, Green Bay. My last experience with sailing ended with the tip of our Sunflower getting stuck in the bottom of Long Lake 40 years ago, so [...]
If you ask us (and we've Googled this, so we know), the first rule of tent camping is this: Find Pete Abraham. We didn't know this as we set out for Door County and the first outdoor camping trip of our entire lives. Rain pelted our windshield at the very moment we realized we'd forgotten [...]