Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
If you could have heard the thunder snow yesterday afternoon in Appleton, you'd know exactly what it meant. That sound was God applauding his favorite kind of humans, the ordinary ones who rise to the challenge of the storms he sends their way. Kind strangers showed up everywhere. Two of them hooked their lines to [...]
I think my face might have been a little sunburned from my delightfully warm walk along the river, because it really hurt when the wind whipped icy pellets at it the next morning as I scraped a thick frost off my windshield. "Come on, Wisconsin!" I yelled. "You're better than this!" From T-shirts on Tuesday [...]
You're better than this, May. I know you are. You're the month of lilacs, lily of the valley and optimism. We look to you, May. You're our gentle ferry to summer. We turn that calendar page from April and take a deep, apple-blossom-scented sigh of relief, because we know we've made it through the dark [...]
A warm wind blew some perfect summer days into Wisconsin last week and we sent a kite up to say thank you. This is what we wrote on its wings (with our imaginary pen): Thank you for the open widows and the sweet, fresh air; for giving our tired boots and mismatched mittens a break; [...]
The storms that converged on Wisconsin had been brewing all day. Weird cloud formations stretched ominously across a sky that sagged with hot, sticky moisture. So, no one was surprised when the alarms on our cellphones started pinging urgent warnings of impending weather. Then, the win whipped up and we all watched trees bending low [...]