Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
If you want to meet a Wisconsinite, just wander down to Alabama during spring break. You’ll find us, and only us, chillin’ in a lukewarm pool or a frankly cold ocean, blue-lipped and determined to enjoy the amenities. Both anecdotal and causal evidence supports this statement. With the air temperature hovering just under 60 degrees, [...]
A nice man asked me if I wanted him take my picture as I stood on the beach shooting the sunset. “Sure!” I answered and handed him my phone. He snapped a couple of shots and I thanked him as he walked away. The pictures made me laugh because, in all these years of loving [...]
Poignancy seeps into Wisconsin’s beauty when its weather confounds. Water leaks through lacy ice, sap runs early and that gorgeous carpet of snow, laid out thick with anticipation just weeks ago, shrinks back with a level of insecurity we don’t normally see here in the unabashed Midwest. All of our snowmobile trails are closed and [...]
I introduced a young man to the ocean this weekend and they became true and perfect friends. Oceans are what people can be when they remember their source of light — steady like the tide, uplifting like the waves and unbiased generators of growth. Earth hits its apex of beauty each evening when the sunset [...]
I sat on a hill in Halifax one night last fall idly texting my family back at our cabin in Wisconsin. "I'm perched on a hill by a citadel hoping to see the Northern Lights," I wrote with mild FOMO because I really hate when any members of my family gather without me. Also, as [...]