Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
The food truck held its own on a lake so cold ice vapors swirled around it. Yellow letters on a red sign both identified its product and offered a spot of color on a gray horizon stretched wide. The tableaux told the story of Midwestern resolve, innovation, recreation and industry. Inside the truck, Dale and [...]
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 [...]
Sometimes, when all my people are where they should be, and my windows are closed, and my car is tucked safely in a garage, and I am not sitting anxiously at an airport gate, I like to watch a summer storm roll in.. I especially like to see it gather strength as it travels over [...]
Turns out we were a smidge too late for the Sunflower Festival at Bergsbaken Farms this year, but we had one of those summer-perfect, Wisconsin-classic, is-this-a-great-state-or-what days anyway. We started our Saturday with the Cheesehead 5K (which was so fun it deserves its own post). Then we hit the Appleton Farmer's Market, headed Up North [...]
Oh, sure, we've had a couple of rough weeks here in Wisconsin, where the wind chill dipped so low it froze the tears in our eyes and no matter how hard we squinted at the TV screen we couldn't make those purple jerseys look green and gold, but guess what? We acclimated. In fact, just [...]