Winter Stockholm Syndrome
You came around again like I knew you would. I braced for you, or should I say that I braced ...
Aldo Leopold’s Lost Radio Talks: Winter Bird Feeding
Conservationist Aldo Leopold gave a series of talks in the 1930s on WHA. Unfortunately, we don’t have the recordings but ...
Woodworking Elves Bring Holiday Cheer To Kids
On a sunny day along the Mississippi River in Onalaska this past fall, a group of guys got together to ...
Wisconsin In WWI: Bill Rice’s Letter Home From Verdun
Bill Rice was just finishing his first year at Harvard Law School when he was accepted into the American Ambulance ...
To Green Bay The Long Way
Thousands of Milwaukeeans will clog the freeways to watch the Green Bay Packers take on Tampa Bay at home this ...
Omer And Mary Never Stopped Going To School
Some people leave school and never look back. Others just can’t stay away. College student Elise Schimke noticed an older ...
A Buck In The Balsams
Snow was gently falling as I moved through the dark woods towards the treestand on a ridge near the edge ...
Abundance: A New Life And Purpose In The Garden
I suspect it’s a sign of immaturity that every fall I stand in childlike wonder before my vegetable garden’s abundance. ...
Grandma Irene: A Wisconsin Deer Camp
For 362 ½ days a year the small farmhouse sat quiet and still along a country road bordered by the ...
Grandma’s Got A New Man
“Why would I want to wash another man’s dirty old underwear?” The question rang forth with more attitude than I ...
Uncles, Fathers, Football, Flags, and Blood
Recently, my uncle and I have gone back and forth on Facebook. We’re not the first to engage in these ...
Wisconsin In WWI: Poetry Of War
The Great War inspired famous war poets such as Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sasson, and Robert Graves. But many soldiers of ...
It’s Not About The Partridge
Despite coming to this Oneida County lake for 52 years, I can still drive 10 minutes to a forest road ...
The Bells Of Autumn
This is the day I’ve been waiting for. The temperature hovers in the low 40’s with a light wind gently ...