Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
Note: I am reposting this in honor of Mile 13 because I was talking to current MoM artist Dan Navarro about how it all began. I wrote this post in 2013... Grammy winners and grandmas shared VIP status during Appleton's Mile of Music, a four-day festival that celebrated both music and the Midwest, elevated new [...]
Huddled under a thick shawl on a hot spring day, the woman caught my eye as she peeled stickers off paper and stuck them to a street post. Then I saw that the stickers were hearts, which really piqued my interest. I told her I liked the stickers and asked if I could take a [...]
Love grows surely in a frozen forest. Root tips touch. Nutrients pass along a mycorrhizal network. Tiny threads of life stretch from robust conifers to struggling saplings. Mother trees stand tall, sense stress send water block wind alert to danger. Oak, Maple, Hickory, Beech, Pine, Spruce and Fir Rise together. Spread their own branches. Bear [...]
I like to think of Door County as Wisconsin’s thumbs up to the world, a peninsula of sunshine and warm cherry pie. Beautiful in any season, but particularly so in the fall, Door County features sunrises, sunsets and 53 public beaches on a narrow piece of land that stretches toward the horizon. We arrived last [...]
Rain lashed the trees outside my window late Wednesday afternoon and I wondered how long those pretty leaves could hang on. Autumn is a short season around here, a flash of color and then it's gone and the long, gray days of November stretch on. I started to feel a little morose about the whole [...]