Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
With a lingering to-do list and just days to spare, we sprinted to the finish line of our Wisconsin summer. First, we needed to get to a beach. “A real beach,” our five-year old sternly said. “One with waves and sand.” We found just the place right where it has always been, calmly waiting for [...]
We understand logistics, and lifeguards who need to leave for college, and musicians who are also teachers that have to prepare their classrooms for the start of the school year, and yoga instructors with businesses to run, but, man oh man, do we hate to say good-bye to summer. Especially with a whole month to [...]
Dear basil from my neighbor’s garden, You have changed my life. Before I met you, I thought fresh basil was for pasta and pesto and other forms of deliciousness that leave bellies warm and breath just a pinch garlicky. But, you! Thrust into my hands by a green-thumbed magician and smelling like summer on the [...]
My iPhone sent me a message yesterday. When it’s feeling particularly melodramatic, my phone refers to itself in the first person. “Temperature,” it gasped. “iPhone needs to cool down before you use it.” I reacted with the same disdain I reserve for all heatwave complainers who whined all winter about the cold. “Oh please,” I [...]
I thought I had a church song rumbling around my head during these past few lovely days of summer. Turns out it was John Denver. In any case, it’s the perfect theme song for those of us who might be getting a little worried that our favorite season is zooming along too fast. Today while [...]