Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
Saturday night my daughter Molly and I found ourselves inexplicably alone at a gorgeous camp fire . (The gentlemen in our party had wandered off into the woods and landed at a neighbor's pond where they built socially distant sand castles and tried to catch fish with their bare hands.) So, we were quite blissful [...]
We spring forward with optimism here in Wisconsin, but we generally land in a big pile of snow. Spring takes its time getting here. I think it likes to save one of its favorite states for last. So, our tulips and daffodils sleep a little longer, and so do out buds. Our fat squirrels swish [...]
Nestled comfortably off the beaten path, just south of a dead-end road, the Oxbow is the kind of Northern Wisconsin establishment you really have to want to find when you set out looking for it. I think you will. Traveling from Appleton, we needed a verbal description, hand-written directions and a spotty GPS to make [...]
My sister Jenny got an intriguing tip two weeks ago as she drove away from our family cabin. She called me immediately. "There's an old car with bullet holes in it hidden off a path near a farmer's field," she said. "I think it's John Dillinger's." Of course we set off immediately to find it. [...]
What would you do in a Klondike bar? If you were a young Bill Hoffman, you might follow your dad in on a Sunday morning to enjoy a little post-mass refreshment -- Orange Crush and a candy bar for you and your four siblings, and a beer or two for your dad. You'd feel right [...]