Boy, these kids and their phones …
World events have conspired to make me feel smaller than usual, and I wasn’t feeling that big to begin with. I feel even smaller when I look a…
The Packers arrived late against the Lions last weekend but managed to win and earn a playoff bye, so this Sunday they get to watch football a…
The chickens are laying eggs again, which seems a fine way to head into the new year. We’re aware there are ways to keep them laying without p…
It’s that time of year when we are bombarded with Top Ten lists and asked to rank our own favorites: favorite holiday memory, favorite tree de…
I just spent a week working and performing with a fascinating batch of artists. Some from Paris and New York City, some from Eau Claire County…
At midnight the air was sizzling with lasers and thudding with music. The dance floor was elbow-to-elbow, and I was watching from the balcony,…
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The kindling was dwindling. In fact the old coal scuttle (are there new coal scuttles?) we use to carry kindling was down to sawdust when I st…
Yesterday as we drove past a playground I spotted a child spinning wildly on a centrifugal swing contraption and nearly lost my lunch.
The van was low on oil so I grabbed a can at the big box store and topped it off in the motel parking lot. Then I checked the dipstick and rea…
It was called the Young Author’s Showcase, so I didn’t qualify. However, a young author of my acquaintance who wished to participate in the ev…
I take nothing for granted, but pending a terminal surprise, before the end of this year I will turn 55. In most cases I’m not a big birthday …
As the sleet hit my bald head I figured I better start a fire.
This morning three whitetail bucks dallied just below the woodshed. Bucks gather up and start running together this time of year, and you know…
I am an inveterate loner and pretty much have been since day one. Raised in a large family, I was born into two great privileges — love and st…
For a long time I wanted to be Waylon Jennings. This was problematic, primarily because the job was already taken by Jessi Colter’s husband. T…
Last night a man showed me a photo of his parents taken around the time they met. His father was a Midwestern G.I. stationed overseas, his mot…
Up in Bayfield this week, the green was going thin on the leaves and there were patches of blaze. It is tempting to continue in this vein and …
The last windstorm took down a major branch of our big apple tree. It hasn’t been pruned in over a decade, so Mother Nature did the job hersel…
Having been holed up beneath a roof all the cloudy morning, when the sun broke through I took a turn around the yard and garden. Right off the…
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This year my wife and I pruned the little plum tree out there by the swing set. Before we started cutting, we viewed several instructional vid…
I was caught off guard when the cucumber leaves fell in a wilt. Spring and summer have been rain-gauge busters, the basement is persistently s…
I once interviewed the singer Greg Brown on a park bench in Iowa City. For the first few minutes, I was distracted by an intermittent subterra…
Headlines and deadlines having dumped me in a brackish stew, I decided it was time to take some sun. I left my air-conditioned room above the …
Art can be harder than you think, especially if you are a ballet dancer competing with pig races.
Once upon a time in Germany, my grandfather bought a brand-new 1967 Volkswagen Beetle straight off the lot. After using the car to tour its co…
Ginny down in the valley brought us a fat bag of asparagus. Ginny’s an expert gardener with decades of experience in the professional plant bu…
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