Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
Last week, I lucked into a couple of chances to witness how God sheds his grace on this old world. I saw the northern lights again. It doesn't matter how many times they appear, those colors stretching and dancing across the sky will take your breath away. You look up and see the first streaks [...]
I like to think of Door County as Wisconsin’s thumbs up to the world, a peninsula of sunshine and warm cherry pie. Beautiful in any season, but particularly so in the fall, Door County features sunrises, sunsets and 53 public beaches on a narrow piece of land that stretches toward the horizon. We arrived last [...]
Rain lashed the trees outside my window late Wednesday afternoon and I wondered how long those pretty leaves could hang on. Autumn is a short season around here, a flash of color and then it's gone and the long, gray days of November stretch on. I started to feel a little morose about the whole [...]
We hightailed it to the river late Saturday afternoon for our fourth last float of the summer. Just like the other three, we giggled a little as we dipped ourselves into that chilly water. As this bonus summer in Wisconsin stretches on, we feel like kids playing hooky from winter. It's there alright, waiting on [...]
The Great Pumpkin rolled up to our house Monday afternoon. At first, we weren't sure what to do with such a famous and unexpected guest. At 162 pounds, he dwarfs the very reasonably sized pumpkin that has already made our front porch his home. You read that right. We have a 162-pound porch pumpkin, and [...]