February 15, 2024
There’s an old saying about the United States Postal Service: "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night … etc...etc…" But, if you’re a driver delivering a package ...
October 31, 2023
Wisconsin has one of the highest concentrations of bartenders in the country, employing more than 24,000 bartenders. A good percentage of them are women. But as writer Patti See tells us, ...
February 7, 2023
The meat raffle. A beloved game where the prize is a frozen turkey, a box of steaks or a chain of sausage links. For writer and vegetarian Patti See, winning ...
July 9, 2020
Saving lives is something a doctor does. Writer Patti See shares this story of a western Wisconsin physician whose life-saving skills extended beyond humans into the animal world as well. ...
January 5, 2018
We saved our son’s baby teeth in a plastic margarine tub on top of the microwave. At first as a holding area each time we collected another tiny relic from ...
August 4, 2017
Patti See first fell in love with baking as a child. And it’s what still connects her with her mother. “Wake up,” I whisper into my sister’s sleepy face. “Let’s ...
March 8, 2017
The lake in Lake Hallie is narrow and shallow but not without its excitement… especially when the ice freezes. Patti See tells the news from Lake Hallie. Our neighbors in ...
February 3, 2017
There are many things to enjoy about a frozen lake. For Patti See, it’s a bonfire built, improbably, on the frozen lake. The first Saturday in February and March, Lake ...
August 3, 2016
When was the last time you wrote a letter? Patti See’s mother made her write letters to her older sisters every week. It’s that training that made her the writer ...
August 19, 2015
I sat behind Karen in Miss Rhinehart’s second grade class: Sabaska, See. She asked if she could borrow a comb; I told I’d never used one. She looked at my ...
June 11, 2015
I lived in town near school and my best friend, Karen, was a “bus kid.” When we were twelve she often came home with me from evening basketball practice. On ...
July 9, 2014
Many of us see the same people on the bus, in our coffee shop, at the gym, or walking to work each day. They are a part of our lives ...
May 7, 2014
Alzheimer’s Disease takes a physical and emotional toll on patients and their caregivers. In honor of Mother’s Day this weekend, writer Patti See’s shares the music that her mom remembered ...
November 23, 2012
Many Wisconsinites are serious about eating locally. Commentator Patti See’s family took things really local with a delicacy that some have called the “chicken of the trees.”
