Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
If you want to enjoy winter, you just have to be a mitten-losing, snowball-making, snowflake-tasting, sled ride-whooping kid. It's easy! You can start with a cheap plastic saucer and just enough snow. Then find a big hill somewhere, settle your creaky old bones in and let 'er rip. I'll tell you what happens as you [...]
I hosted a goodbye party for February yesterday, but don't feel bad that you weren't invited. I kept the guest list pretty small --just me, the shortest month, a couple of shovels and about a million yards of the thickest non-rink ice I've ever seen. I really should have invited Mr. Zamboni. He would have [...]
If you're lucky enough to live next door to a sled hill, you might wake up early on a perfect February morning, lounge around in your jammies, have leftover birthday cake for breakfast, bundle up, head over to the hill, race your brother down, catch some air off a jump, make an angel in the [...]
We became a family of YahooTubers this weekend, and I think our winter is going all downhill from here. I sure hope so, anyway. First, my husband Vince had the swell idea to hook one of our river raft tubes up to his pickup truck and haul us through the woods that surround our cabin. [...]
Children can be wild and unpredictable, much like Wisconsin weather in the winter. Sweet and sunny on a Monday afternoon, surly and soupy the whole next day. You wonder, sometimes, why you live where you do. And then... "I'm going to write hearts in the snow for people to see them and smile." "Look! I [...]