Frozen Assets
It was a crop that required no seeds. No one had to turn over a single furrow of earth or ...
Wisconsin In WWI: Charles Whittlesey’s Lost Battalion
A century ago Charles Whittlesey left his job as a lawyer in New York to to fight in World War ...
Beatboxer
Zachary Zimmermann loves to beatbox. He learned how as a kid and now in college, he's using his talents as a ...
Taking Stock
I was thinking about traditional foods of Wisconsin the other day. Envisioning the immigrants who crossed choppy seas and rock ...
Boy And Dog
We saved our son’s baby teeth in a plastic margarine tub on top of the microwave. At first as a ...
Joy On A Winter’s Day
Just to know how it felt I stood under the red pine. It was 10 below and the sun was ...
Far Away From Home
Tina Bohling grew up challenged by both whites and Latinos about her identity. Her household identified as Chicano but she wasn’t ...
Hands Down: There’s A Price For Grabbing Onto Life
The skin on my knuckles has been dry and cracked for weeks. My fingertips, too. I’ve got little scabs from ...
An Existential Christmas
I judge each child I meet based on her or his merits. I don’t always end up liking them, but ...
Wisconsin Life Holiday Special
Food is a big part of the holiday season no matter what or how you celebrate. Many of us eat ...
The Poster For The Otis Redding Show That Never Was
Posters for concerts are a common sight around central Madison, particularly along State Street, near the UW campus and on ...
Luke Skywalker’s Milwaukee Connections
The highly anticipated next installment of Star Wars hits theaters this month. Unlike the first movie in the reboot launched ...
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 ...