Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
We blessed the vines our son Vinnie and his wife Danni planted this weekend in a ceremony so simple and yet so touching I’m warmed by it still. In the ancient Georgian tradition, ten times we raised our glasses as the sun set on one of those gorgeous, productive days that end in sweaty, tired [...]
Two days after my friend Kirsten texted me about an 88-year old man she’d met in an Appleton grocery store and thought would make a good blog subject, I randomly ran into him. “Do you know a guy who makes wine?” I asked the boisterous gentleman sitting across the bar from me at the Washington [...]
It's times like these you learn to live again. Dave Grohl wrote the perfect song for the summer of 2021, because the sun is finally shining, family and friends are gathering at last and music, live music, is making its way back into venues. Thankfully, we, who have been fumbling through an historically challenging period [...]