Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
I live in a magical city. So, at the end of this long week, I'm going to be dancing a jig. I hope you'll join me. One of my favorite convergences of community and good ole Gaelic fun takes place this weekend at Jones Park. The fifth annual Irish Fest begins Friday and runs through [...]
We tried to sing “When Irish eyes are smiling” to our granddaughter Saturday night, but it turned out none of us actually knew the words. I can tell you this, though, Irish eyes were smiling all weekend at Irish Fest of the Fox Cities. Everyone else’s eyes were smiling too. And in the lilt of [...]
Matt Miller died too soon, but he left behind a lasting legacy of love, laughter and leprechauns. Owner of McGuinness Pub and promoter of all things Irish, Miller cut a wide swath through the cities he loved, and he left Northeast Wisconsin a little more festive and a lot more Gaelic than it had been. [...]
My favorite kind of luck wafts up from the shepherd's pie you eat in a park on a warm Friday night in September. It sails out over a gathering crowd and touches each heart with its glow. Notes carry that kind of luck and they come from the cheerfullest instruments -- fiddles, flutes, bagpipes and [...]
I didn't realize Appleton had its very own leprechaun until I treated myself to a whole Saturday (and most of a Friday) at its second annual Irish Fest. What but Irish magic (and a slew of volunteers' incredibly hard work) could account for to toe-tapping, tummy-patting, pint-tipping, arm-waving, hand-clapping explosion of joy that happened all [...]