Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
I'm wrapping up my series of posts about our family trip to Ireland with Dublin, the last chapter of an epic adventure. Our stops along the Wild Atlantic Way exhilarated all of our senses. I will, for instance, always remember the bowl of mint pea soup I ate at an unassuming roadside tavern overlooking both [...]
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 [...]
The last time I thought about William Cullen Bryant was in 1982 when most of my friends were wandering around the hallways at Xavier High School sort of glassy-eyed and mumbling the last stanza of Thanatopsis. “So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where [...]
We got a little lost yesterday, and found our way to Brad's Pit. We followed Google Maps into Tommy Thompson State Park Sunday morning with a very loose plan of hiking and then hitting any spot neither of us had ever been. We passed a Booyah Festival setting up in Crivitz and our mouths immediately [...]
On the day we arrived, I ran around Singapore like a crazy person. Sweaty, sleep-deprived and giddy, I wended my way through crowds of tourists, snapping photos and startling strangers with my unabashed glee. I thought Singapore was the most beautiful city in the world. And then they turned the lights on. Good. Lord. Singapore [...]