An unfamiliar November sun rode in this weekend and we Midwesterners responded with great gulps of glee. Everywhere we looked people rode bikes they had put away for the winter, hauled out the summer shorts, dined al fresco , walked, jogged, raked leaves, climbed playground equipment and tried to stay outside as long as possible. [...]
The message, stern and somewhat threatening, appeared yesterday on every single door of my daughter Katherine's apartment building. "The laundry room is not for personal storage space," it read. "If those are your bikes downstairs, you have 24 hours to remove them, otherwise the office will remove and dispose of them." And that's how Paired [...]
My son and daughter in-law Vinnie and Danni share a love of adventure, a palate for good wine and an affinity for hard work. As level one sommelieres, they understand that, when stressed by the elements, fruit can either grow bitter or more robust. Just like us. In the face of COVID-19 challenges that stymied [...]
On a somewhat stormy Saturday morning, my friend Catherine and I took a foraging class and this is what I learned: 1. You can eat almost any plant in Wisconsin, except the ones that will kill you in a prompt and painful manner. 2. You can forage almost anywhere in Wisconsin, except where it is [...]
That confounding Wisconsin Spring spilled dense fog all over the runways Saturday morning and torpedoed our plans for a Young Eagle Flight, but we still had an excellent adventure. That's how cool EAA, the Experimental Aircraft Association, is. First, we accidentally poked our heads into the maintenance hangar and, instead of being sternly rebuked for [...]