A short Uber ride in Birmingham provided both the means to the National Civil Rights Monument and the meaning such places exist. “Do you know where we could take a civil rights walking tour?” my mom asked William, our driver. “You’d have to go to Montgomery for that,” he said while he zipped us along [...]
Daisy the bunny knows how to earn her keep. With her long, fluffy white fur, she looks like a feather duster and, when she peeks out from her mop, she makes friends with people and fellow bunnies easily. Beyond the cute pet, though, Daisy lends her fur to her very industrious family. Amber, mom of [...]
The pilot strode past us purposefully as we sat at our gate on the tail end of a very long travel day. My companion caught his eye and waved. The pilot waved back, continued down the jetway and then popped back out. “Hey,” he said. “Do you want to tour the cockpit?” We did, of [...]
Poignancy seeps into Wisconsin’s beauty when its weather confounds. Water leaks through lacy ice, sap runs early and that gorgeous carpet of snow, laid out thick with anticipation just weeks ago, shrinks back with a level of insecurity we don’t normally see here in the unabashed Midwest. All of our snowmobile trails are closed and [...]
I introduced a young man to the ocean this weekend and they became true and perfect friends. Oceans are what people can be when they remember their source of light — steady like the tide, uplifting like the waves and unbiased generators of growth. Earth hits its apex of beauty each evening when the sunset [...]