The optimist: Lessons from mom and dad
We all learn lessons from our parents...how to cook a traditional family meal, how to have compassion or how to ...
The shot heard ‘round the farm: Dad’s baseball is a goner
Remember the classic scene in “The Sandlot?” When Smalls hits a homer into the neighbor’s yard...and it turns out the ...
Dear Papa, I’m writing to you on birch bark
When WPR producer Steve Gotcher's daughter, Erika, was a little girl, she started a tradition of sending him letters on ...
The Last Hunting Season
Every year, Chris Hardie and his father sat together in the cold November woods on opening day of the gun ...
‘I Did This All My Life’: One Family Farm’s Fight For Survival
Most people will never see a farm like the one I grew up on. But you don’t just see a ...
The Hill That Goes Up That Goes Down: A Bit Of Family Magic At Devil’s Lake
My family likes to go camping a lot. And when I was a kid back in the 1980s, one of ...
Parenting In A Pandemic: We’re All Doing The Best We Can
Every day after lunch, my son and I go for a walk. It’s one of the pleasant parts of our ...
On Becoming A Father
Father's Day is coming up this weekend, and that has commentator Reverend Dr. Alex Gee thinking back to the very ...
A Winter Childhood
Editor's Note: Snow and cold trigger warm memories for Crystal Chan. Now living in Chicago, she recalls what winter meant during ...
Trout Season
Father’s Day is this weekend. Writer Susan Lampert Smith reminisces about her father and a 65 year tradition marking the ...