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As winter sinks its fangs in deep, and snow and slush bank the roads up here in the northern U.S., it's nice to think back to the Labor Day weekend in Milwaukee and the wind in our faces! www.runningwithstilettos.com

Meat Loaf kicked off his new concert tour in spectacular fashion at Milwaukee's Summerfest last night, and it was a show not to be missed! Here is the preview article about Meat Loaf and his upcoming tour and album that ran in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newspaper just before. This was the opening night of Summerfest, routinely described as "The Big Gig" and "The World's Largest Music...

Milwaukee’s Irish Fest, which just wrapped up a couple of days ago, is known around the world as a spectacular gathering place and music festival on the shores of Lake Michigan. I just spent a day there and did the full-on experience. I petted an Irish Wolfhound and an Irish Setter, bought a book from a Northern Irish author, Patricia Falvey, bought a lovely silver ring with a woven Irish...

The moment had the definite feel of being in an H.G. Wells novel about a time machine. Or a late-night college dorm session arguing the impossibility of time travel, with the theory that if you went back twenty years, you could conceivably meet a younger version of yourself on a street corner. And what happens then? But I met myself the other day, and had to laugh! Bits and pieces of my past...

There are a lot of things to do on a Labor Day weekend...but when your guy lives near Milwaukee and owns a Harley, the only plan possible was to spend it at Harley Davidson's 105th reunion. So Friday morning I traded the high heels, sneakers and flip-flops for my lug-soled black boots and we took off for two days of wandering on two wheels. There was a H.O.G. Haven not far from where I live, and...

Last night I sat through a truly remarkable acoustic concert by rocker Richard Marx and had to share! He's still on tour for anybody who's lucky enough to be in the neighborhood of his shows and get a ticket. That would include both sides of the Atlantic in 2011.We watched him last night at the Hamilton Fine Arts center in Sussex, Wisconsin, which is near Milwaukee. Richard Marx is a familiar...

Announcing the arrival of “Heck on Heels,” my new collection of essays! Here's the text of the press release I'm sending out into the universe... "This is the second collection of essays by award-winning Wisconsin writer and photographer Mary T. Wagner. “Heck on Heels” follows Wagner’s debut collection, “Running with Stilettos: Living a Balanced Life in Dangerous Shoes,”...

I used to have plantar fasciitis. Every once in a while a touch of it comes back, but pretty...