Floatilla Photos

It’s been a wild week weather-wise — temperatures up in the 40’s a couple days, lots of rain, then frozen pellets. Our lovely snow now has the consistency of butter brickle. I was so looking forward to going skiing, snowshoeing, and sliding over New Years weekend, but have you ever tried to do any of…

We forget sometimes how much the world can hurt.It can hurt people we love,people we don’t,people caught in the middle,even people who would give anything to never, ever get hurt again.But sometimes the hurt can’t be avoided,It’s just coming at us and can’t be stopped.It’s in us and can’t be seen,or is lying next to…

I must be insane! It was bad enough that I was planning on going skijoring tomorrow at 10 AM when it should be about 5 degrees above zero, and the sun was supposed to be shining. But now I’m planning on going at 8 AM when it will be 4 below and overcast! The only…

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. — Gilda…

“Just because you’re miserable doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy life.” I saw that quote on a greeting card at the Seasons Gallery in Hudson, Wisconsin. It’s perfectly true. And I certainly enjoyed myself yesterday evening. My friend Lynn and I drove to the Seasons Gallery to see our friend Sue’s one woman show called “Meddling…