February 17, 2022
With long cold winters, many of us develop a deep and sometimes fraught relationship with our winter gear. Christi Clancy tells us about her struggle and search for a new ...
October 7, 2021
The Playboy Club Hotel opened in Lake Geneva in 1968. Not only did it bring celebrities to southeast Wisconsin, but it became a hub for Midwestern travelers and businessmen and, ...
December 13, 2017
You came around again like I knew you would. I braced for you, or should I say that I braced myself against you, knowing that I was powerless. But then ...
October 5, 2016
You can tell it’s fall in Wisconsin when people start asking this question: “How was your summer?” We never ask about fall or spring. I mean, why bother? Those seasons ...
December 2, 2015
I’m a Midwesterner. I should’ve known when I saw the tureen of soup on the porch of my new house in Milwaukee that it was an offering of kindness. But ...
August 26, 2015
I often introduce students in my English classes to the concept of liminality, or the important middle phase of the rite of passage ritual. The Latin word limen means “threshold,” ...
December 11, 2013
Winter officially starts next week. It's a season that invites strong feelings among Wisconsinites. Writer Christi Clancy tells us how she deals with this time of year.
November 6, 2013
Fall is filled with rituals, both celebratory like a holiday and wistful as we prepare for the winter. Writer Christi Clancy has an annual ritual around her cabin.
