We talk a lot about the "feels like" temperature around here, because not knowing the difference between air temperature and wind chill could cost you a couple of digits or a nose. On Monday, for instance, the air temperature when I woke up read a balmy -8 degrees, but the "feels like" temperature, thanks to [...]
We spent an impossibly beautiful November afternoon at Salm's Hickory Hill Farm, where one of us took a horseback riding lesson and the other scurried around like a madwoman muttering to herself about golden hours, sunsets and the light. I'm not sure there's anything more beautiful than the golden hour of an autumn day, even [...]
Shortly after we marked the end of our active parenting years, our daughter Katherine gave us a little pep talk from her apartment located a maddening 2,078.4 miles from home. “You should call these the Bloody Mary years,” she said. Her idea to rebrand our empty nest life in that kind-of-Wisconsin way sprang from a [...]
For quite some time now, my husband Vince and I have been working to restore a path my dad cut through the woods nearly 30 years ago. We owe our pace -- a pocket full of nails, a board or two, a few random cuts of low hanging branches -- to our lack of both [...]
I heard the echo of Walt Whitman as I treated myself to a solo walk through the woods Sunday morning (which turned out to be a nice palette cleanser for the stress of that crazy Packer game.) Fog lifted as I strolled along and that felt like a metaphor. We humans breath a little deeper [...]