Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
We've always known that the land was not ours. Brief, fascinating encounters with its true proprietors have taught us that. We've stood pinned under a porcupine's tree staring at quivering quills, unwilling to trust our Wikipedia-inspired knowledge of quill-throwing potential. We've been taunted gloriously by corn-veiled coyotes howling at the moon. We've seen snake skin, [...]
We went to the woods because I wanted Molly to play the cello deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and to see if we could learn what it had to teach and not, when we came to die, to discover we had not lived. She played obediently at first, placed her end [...]
When the temperature dips around here, we like to slip into something a little more comfortable and enjoy the kind of romance only Wisconsin's north woods can deliver. And if our #OOTD (Outfit of the Day) doesn't rate with the CFDA (Council of Fashion Designers of America), we think it should. With its splendid blaze [...]
A schizophrenic crossroad on the way to our family cabin fascinates me each time we pass it -- to the left, Happy Lane, to the right Old Dump Road. A divine sense of humor or retribution led to these two very different descriptions of the same street. The sign offers a perfect example of perspective. Would [...]
This week as the purple petals on my favorite flowers finally emerged, we learned once again the depths of profound beauty and terrible passion Mother Nature offers. I dusted off my favorite bike and took a late afternoon ride through the city Sunday afternoon, pausing occasionally to smell the lilacs and to photograph spring's glorious [...]