Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
I was joking when I started belting out "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" as we made our way through Bluebird Trail Sunday afternoon at Copper Culture State Park. Then, darned if the little buggers didn't start swooping overhead. "Hey look," I said. "Mr. Bluebird's on your shoulder!" We looked up and saw those pretty little birds flying everywhere. My [...]
An old Polish expression says, Nie chwal dnia przed zachodem slonca (Don't praise the day before sunset.) We're a pessimistic lot, we Poles. But, we knew as soon as we set our chairs under a green and gold tent in Hofa Park, that Sunday would be sublime. A fresh breeze rustled the tarp, the new [...]
The summer before he died, my dad spent all of his free time chopping a walking path along the Oconto River. He'd emerge after spending hours in the woods, dirty, sweaty, all scratched up from tree branches and wild blackberry bushes, and grinning like an eight-year old on the first day of summer vacation. The [...]
We love a good parade in Wisconsin, almost as much as we love a good hunk of cheese, and we enjoyed both a few weeks ago at the Suring Centennial Labor Day Parade. Really, the Booyah would have been enough, but, in honor of its biggest birthday yet, Suring offered us so much more. We [...]
During a hectic weekend filled with annual pilgrimages to both La Crosse, for the Wisconsin State Theatre Festival, and to Madison, for Fundamentally Sound's Fall Show, we detoured for a little while to a beautiful shrine. Located just outside La Crosse, Wisconsin, The Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe proved to be a sweet respite [...]