I’ve got a surprise for you! Wanna know what it is? Well, then it wouldn’t be a surprise, would it? OK, I’ll tell you anyway… You have the surprising ability to surprise yourself. Not what you were expecting? Well, therein lies the surprise....
Whenever there has been a need, Jen Miller has stepped up to meet it. When she was a freshman at the University of Wisconsin, the field hockey team she had been recruited for was dropped by the school. So she switched sports, filling a void at goalie on the...
Yesterday I took the dog on my favorite hike, one that rewards a climb with a tremendous view. You can see for miles — farmland below and mountains in the distance, a view that stretches across more than 5 towns. But an early fog rolled in and when we got to the...
A few weeks ago, I arose before dawn to take in a spectacle – an annual hot-air balloon festival one town over. Among the activities was a balloon launch at sunrise. I am not your typical hot air balloon “enthusiast.” Given my intense fear of...
There are stories everywhere. I can’t not notice them. And there’s symbolism in these stories. They serve as analogies of our lives. I can’t not notice that either. This is a story about a hot dog. … but, really, it’s about more than a...
