Though it had been there all along, we discovered the most amazing Little Free Library just a few weeks ago on the first day of school. How cool is that? My young friend even selected a book as carefully as time allowed, and opened it right up and began to read as we walked to [...]
It’s going to be especially hard to say good-bye to our old friend when the Erb Park Pool closes this weekend, because it has been especially good to us this year. Nearly every evening we have headed across the street for a little post-dinner swim and, nearly every evening we have walked home so very [...]
On any given day in the United States, more than 430,000 kids wake up in foster homes. Here in Wisconsin, the Department of Children and Families has placed roughly 6,800 children in out of home care. Those numbers can be overwhelming when you think about all the resources required to feed, clothe, comfort, educate, counsel, [...]
We love a good, healthy ghost story (as long as it’s not too scary). So, when we heard about a road haunted by ghost chickens, we knew we had to investigate. We’re not the kind of people who balk at a challenge. Our expedition presented several. First, we had to find Chicken Alley Road. One [...]
I had myself a morning yesterday, involving a broken washing machine, a deep-sleeping peanut who wet the bed and the resulting trip to the laundromat. Did you know those commercial machines still require quarters? I did not. Did you know the change machines that produce the quarters you need don’t take $20 bills? I did [...]