LAKE Magazine - Lake Geneva

09/12/2026

We’re still buzzing! ☕️🧋☕️💥🫖

The things we do for a story…! 😍☕️🥤🧋

Spent the day doing a coffee shop hop through the greater Lake Geneva area, meeting the locals that love their favorite cozy hang out spots and sampling soooo many tasty beverages.

For someone who rarely has caffeine…let’s just say I’m still “super motivated” today, too. 🤣🤣

I love capturing the stories of our community. ♥️

Thanks to LAKE Magazine - Lake Geneva for the awesome day! Excited to write ✍️ this piece.

05/22/2026

Honoring the brave this Memorial Day. 🇺🇸 means taking time this weekend to attend local parades and memorial services to honor the special servicemen and women who have given everything for our country. From local high school band performances and poignant speeches to ceremonial wreath layings, let's show up as a community to pay our respects. Lest we forget. ❤️🤍💙

Memorial Events Around The Lake:

Monday, May 25th in Lake Geneva
10:00AM the American Legion Post 24 Memorial Day Parade and Honor Service

The American Legion Frank Kresen Post 24 parade begins at the corner of Broad Street and Wisconsin Ave (in front of Horticulture Hall) and ends in Flat Iron Park with a ceremonial honor service. In concert with the City of Lake Geneva and local law enforcement, the event includes middle school and high school band performances, poignant speeches, and an afternoon reception for American Legion members back at Post 24.


Monday, May 25th in Williams Bay
10:45AM the VFW Post 2373 and American Legion Post 102 Memorial Day Parade and Honor Service

The Geneva Lake VFW Post 2373 and the Ingalls-Koeppen American Legion Post 102 parade is the largest in Walworth County and begins at the intersection of Cherry and Clover Streets in Williams Bay, then proceeds west to Williams Street, then south on Williams Street, then east on Geneva Street to Edgewater Park. The commemoration event begins immediately following the parade. In coordination with VFW Post 102 in Walworth and VFW and Legion Riders, this event roars to a start with dozens of motorcycles from Lake Geneva, Beloit, Janesville and beyond leading the parade and incorporates local high school bands and choirs, police and fire departments, a ceremonial wreath laying, a bugler playing Taps, and a gun salute.

Monday, May 25th in Walworth and Fontana
American Legion Post 102 Memorial Services and Parades
8:00AM Memorial Service at Cobblestone Cemetery
9:00AM Memorial Service at Brick Church Cemetery
10:00AM Parade in Walworth from Walworth Square to Walworth Cemetery along Kenosha Street with memorial service at Walworth Center Cemetery
11:00AM Parade in Fontana from corner of 3rd and Douglas, following 3rd to Lake Street and ending at Reid Park with a memorial service.

Photos by:
American Legion Frank Kresen Post 24 Lake Geneva https://post24lgwi.org/

Geneva Lake VFW Post 2373 Williams Bay www.genevalakesvfw.org

Wisconsin American Legion Geneva Lake VFW Post 2373-Wisconsin

05/15/2026

Today we celebrated with our talented Holly Miller, our content Creator and owner of Stories of A Lifetime LLC. Holly was one of only 6 companies, and only 1 of 2 in her size category, in all of Wisconsin to receive this prestigious recognition from the Better Business Bureau of Wisconsin . Congratulations! We are honored to have you on our team at LAKE!

04/23/2026

Have you met our writer Holly Miller ? Here is a quick peek into her world from just this past week. She sure had a lot of activity and yet has managed to make the June issue shape up to be one of the most beautiful yet! (Stay tuned for that). If you see her about say hi!

Feeling like I need my own episode of Where in the World is Holly San Diego! 🧐🌎 IYKYK

I’m here, there, and everywhere lately, and yup you probably saw me at that other place, too! 🤗😎😃🤪

✔️Over the past few days I’ve been around Lake Geneva gathering fun and fresh content for LAKE Magazine - Lake Geneva with a fantastic feature meeting held at the charming Green Grocer. ✔️ I was the guest speaker at the Shoreside Therapies lunch and learn. ✔️ I showcased my wedding officiant services at the DoubleTree by Hilton Pleasant Prairie Kenosha and at the LuxeLoop event at The Reserve at Black Oak . ✔️ I mixed and mingled with the fabulous vendors that make weddings happen in Southern WI and Northern IL at the Lake Geneva Wedding Society event at Grand Geneva Resort & Spa. ✔️ I had my video session with the Better Business Bureau of Wisconsin for my winners profile as a recipient of the 2026 Torch Awards for Ethics in Business in preparation for next month’s awards ceremony in Milwaukee. 🏆🥳✔️ And today I was at Carthage College for a planning meeting for my Guest Speaker presentation next week at their Issues in Living and Dying class. ✔️ Oh, and you saw me at my office, the dog groomers, the periodontist, grocery store, all the things, and of course Kwik Trip…more than once. ⛽️✔️

Whew!!! I’ve worked soooo hard to have these type of events on my plate. Grateful for every single moment of it! ♥️🙏
~Celebrant Holly Miller

Edit: Oh! And how did I forget the flood 🌊 was this past week, too?! 😳 Sooo much water…EVERYWHERE. But…slowly drying out…onward and upward, friends!

04/02/2026

Did you catch the March issue of LAKE and the vibrant Jodie Kennedy's amazing story? In case you missed it, here's some story highlights:

On a crisp morning in rural Elkhorn, Jodie Kennedy steps out onto her property, greeted by the enthusiastic clucking of her beloved chickens. Her two rescue dogs, Bizzy and Dash, bound across the expansive yard. It's a scene of a changed world for Jodie-one she can hardly believe she's living. Her accidental reality is far from the lifestyle she was once living with her husband, Joe, in Denver, Colorado.

This is not merely a story about trading city life for country living. This is about a woman who discovered that sometimes the most profound transformations happen when we have the courage to speak our truth.

For Jodie, that transformation came through poetry- raw, honest, achingly relatable poetry- that has connected her with readers and fans across the globe.

A little over three years ago, the course of Jodie & Joe's life was fundamentally altered. Joe's mother was diagnosed with an aggressive and devastating brain disease.

"It was an extremely difficult time for Joe and me. The reality of my mother-in-law's disease left us feeling confused and helpless. It was the right move for me to leave my job to help be her caregiver and advocate."

Faced with overwhelming grief and the need to find a healthy way through, Jodie made a tiny decision that would change everything for her and Joe in a big way. "I reverted back to my creative kid self," she says. "The only way I could think of to get through this hard time was to go back to what I loved doing when I was a child. I used to write all the time." So, Jodie started writing every single day on Instagram. Her Instagram account gained traction.

People weren't just slowing their scroll- they were sharing, commenting, and finding pieces of their own stories reflected in her honest expressions of grief, hope, struggle, and resilience. Jodie's writing built bridges across differences and across oceans.

After a year of daily writing the most extraordinary thing happened. One of the top book distributors in the United States wanted to publish Jodie's poetry...