Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
A cheeky turf war erupted during the annual Fourth of July parades in Bonduel and Gillett, and I’m curious where you stand. Are you team red, yellow or black fire truck? Those two parades have always been lively, turn-your-back-at-your own risk affairs. Grown men fire squirt guns from slow moving floats with admirable glee. Cheese [...]
Tuesday night I sat on a playground bench listening to the Appleton City Band play. While my aim was to make sure my young charge behaved himself, my attention drifted toward another group of children playing near me. A tiny girl with a pixie haircut and pink shoes cheerfully doled out orders. She dispersed the [...]
You can find an example of all that’s good and right in this world on a city block near me. There, a series of Little Library structures invite wanderers to nourish their souls. “Take a tiny piece of art, leave a tiny piece of art,” invites one. “Take a book, leave a book,” says another. [...]
You know you’re in Wisconsin for the Fourth of July when you have to duck quickly to avoid getting bonked on the head by a flying hunk of string cheese during the annual Bonduel parade. When a fistful of fresh strawberries you grabbed from the field tastes like sweet sunshine. When the fish you eat [...]
At some point among the booms and pops, the sparklers and sunshine, surges the gratitude. It swells like music from a bandshell and rises above the discord. We are lucky to live during this miraculous time, on this big, beautiful planet and in this world that grows more intimate each day. We, who live in [...]