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 [...]
I spent the weekend of America's birthday with a bunch of deep thinkers. One of them asked if he could pick some wild flowers and send them down the river. I wondered why he would want to do that when the flowers seemed so happy right where they were. "Because flowers are like love," he [...]
You have to be agile to celebrate the Fourth of July in Northern Wisconsin, able to dodge water balloons and flying cheese sticks and willing to scramble out of the way when children dive for all the candy and beachballs tossed their way. We know this because we were lucky enough to attend two Fourth [...]
Dear America, You're 242-years old today and some might say you're showing your age. You're like a cranky old neighbor, mean to the children and way too fastidious about your yard Others might say you have a lot of growing up to do. You're like an angry child, railing against the very people trying to [...]