I took my evening constitutional yesterday to enjoy the absolutely perfect weather and to ward off an encroaching salty snicker snack binge. Because it's Appleton, I: Chatted briefly with a man casting his fishing pole the length of City Park. "What are you catching?" I joked, as the only body of water in City Park [...]
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A Wall of Hope
I wish you could have been there yesterday when my friend Tami and I rounded a corner and found a wall of hope. Built of pastel colored sticky notes and messages of love, the wall fluttered in the optimistic sunlight. It indiscriminately waved lost souls home, and offered a platform for kind wisdom. "You are [...]
The beautiful soul of a city, a university and a brand new music festival
If the heart of last week's Mile of Music Festival lay in its people -- pounding nervously in its volunteers, beating coolly in its artists and thumping happily in its attendees -- the soul stood stately, an anchor on the mile's east end. The Lawrence Memorial Chapel not only provided an elegant venue for the [...]