Yesterday, I spotted a small, pink, easy chair randomly resting along a train track and it set my mind wandering. Had a rogue band of toddlers left it there after a raucous night of raspberry blowing and mud pie making following their coordinated escape from various cribs around the city? Too close to the tracks, [...]
In addition to being Super Bowl Sunday, which stubbornly takes place even when the Packers aren't playing in it, and Groundhog Day, a holiday our family has embraced with procrastinating pleasure, yesterday was also a palindrome 02/02/2020. It's the same forward and backward. Of course I love palindromes. I'm a mom. I have a niece [...]
I admire most the unlikely flowers, those dropped from an apathetic wind and pushing up tall and strong from unfriendly soil. I wonder, sometimes, how that feels, having been more of a potted plant myself. Is there time for a wild seed to ponder its place in the fickle universe or are its days filled [...]
Drive down almost any country road in Wisconsin and eventually you'll pass a church with a steeple and a story that will blow you away. A few weeks ago, we stumbled onto the Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church just as a summer storm rolled through Shawano County. I stopped to take a couple of pictures because [...]
I took my evening constitutional yesterday to enjoy the absolutely perfect weather and to ward off an encroaching salty snicker snack binge. Because it's Appleton, I: Chatted briefly with a man casting his fishing pole the length of City Park. "What are you catching?" I joked, as the only body of water in City Park [...]