A hitched wagon and a bashful star

A hitched wagon and a bashful star

My friend Amanda likes to keep things low key. Reflexively kind, she operates under the Midwestern mantra that says see a problem, solve the problem and then move on. Last Monday evening, she noticed her 92-year old neighbor Armin outside pacing his yard in obvious distress. When she found out what had happened, Amanda offered [...]

A picture perfect Halloween

A picture perfect Halloween

Halloween blew briskly down our street this year and threatened to send our little trick-or-treaters home early. But, we're made of sterner stuff here in Wisconsin and we love our holidays, our chocolate and our friends. The Erb Park neighborhood did not disappoint last night. Wobbly toddlers in fuzzy costumes, cheerful chaperones, happy bands of [...]

The Erb Park Neighborhood Garden Walk (or reason 136,842 we love this hood)

The Erb Park Neighborhood Garden Walk (or reason 136,842 we love this hood)

The gifts of the Erb Park neighborhood just keep giving. Yesterday, we, who can't always tell an orchid from a weed, enjoyed a genuinely lovely garden walk though the hood. We noshed on Queen Ann's Lace (did you know it tasted like parsley?), learned about rainwater irrigation techniques, met some talented landscape artists, dug up [...]