Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
We kicked off summer yesterday with a float down the frigid waters of the Oconto River. Say what you will about us Wisconsinites, but we've never let a little unseasonable chill spoil our fun. So, wanting to set a tone for the epic summer of 2025, in we went, Captain Allnut and me. (And, if [...]
If it weren't for Jeff Askew bringing juggling balls to Thanksgiving, I might never have experienced the prolonged frustration and momentary triumph of tossing three balls in the air. We wondered, during those waning days of November, whether juggling might end up being one of the six new sports I intended to learn. "Is juggling [...]
You can taste resilience in a chocolate bar. Altruism too. And, most delicious of all, peace. I know this because I bit into a Peace by Chocolate candy bar yesterday and here's what I learned: we humans are even better than the richest, deepest, sweetest chocolate. That's saying something. Peace by Chocolate is a company [...]
The day after I spent a sweaty hour chipping frozen snow off my sidewalk, I came upon four lily shoots stretching up from the ground. That I had planted them moments earlier mattered not. They gave me hope. If you want to find spring in Wisconsin, sometimes you have to buy it from Menards. Am [...]
My friend Tami introduced me to pickleball last week and it became the fifth sport in my quest to learn six new sports this year. Until last Friday, my husband and I were pretty much the only two people we know who had never picked up a pickleball paddle. Even my 86-year old mother, who [...]