Sometimes, when all my people are where they should be, and my windows are closed, and my car is tucked safely in a garage, and I am not sitting anxiously at an airport gate, I like to watch a summer storm roll in.. I especially like to see it gather strength as it travels over [...]
Dear March, I'm sure you're used to warmer receptions, but we're all a little stiff from our icy hunch through February and we're afraid to open our curtains in the morning because we don't know what meteorological horror awaits us on the other side of that pane. So, pardon us if we don't fling open [...]
My friend Angie mused a little during our Wednesday morning bootcamp. "You know," she said between impressive plyo jacks. "If you squint from a distance, the snowy bushes can look like flowering dogwood trees." This is what it's come to here in the Midwest, where spring takes its ever-lovin' time. We delude ourselves. One year, [...]
March roared into Wisconsin like a lion last week, spewing sleet and snow like curses all over the street (or maybe that was me. It's hard to tell under all those layers of winter scarves). The aftermath, of course, looked gorgeous, diamond crusted and pristine. But, spring shovels feel so much heavier, don't they? Who [...]
I caught a robin's eye yesterday and we sadly shook our heads. April in Wisconsin, man, it's not for the faint of feather. I know this because my spiffy down coat has been molting since December. I keep storing it away with my winter boots, and then hauling them back upstairs as another blustery front [...]