Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
The music brought us to the Green Bay Botanical Gardens last Sunday. The beauty took our breath away. I'll add introducing me to that lovely, peaceful place as another reason I'm grateful to the Mile of Music team, producers of the excellent Grass Roots Festival. We showed up right at noon for the seven-hour event, [...]
I'm certain the 25 pies entered into the third annual Outagamie County Fair pie contest came from a multitude of inspirations. There were sour cherry and apple pies made from grandmother's recipe, neatly scrawled on a stained recipe card. Nature inspired pies like Raspberry Rose and Apple Bud. However, I'm certain mine was the only [...]
Singer/songwriter Rob Anthony posted this thought yesterday: "Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside us." Perhaps because I've been driving around with a temporarily disabled sound system, this comment hit me hard. I miss music in my car and I crave it in my life. I appreciate all the brave [...]
My clapping hands are so tired I can hardly type, but my mother taught me to be prompt with my thank yous and this one needs to be said. Thank you Dave Willems for navigating challenging elements and delivering us the best Mile of Music Festival yet. You and your staff, along with the artists [...]
My second most embarrassing Mile of Music moment happened midway through Mile 3. By then a know-it-all veteran of two Miles, I lounged in Houdini Plaza, chatting amiably with assembled family members. "Hey, there's Benny," I said to my husband. "I'm going to tell him how great that Swear and Shake set was." "That's not [...]