10 reasons you want to be a Badger basketball fan

10 reasons you want to be a Badger basketball fan

It’s pretty easy to spot the motion W these days. On flags, hats, T-shirts, sweat shirts, license plates and baked goods, the University of Wisconsin logo has become a ubiquitous presence in a nation obsessed with sports and sporting personalities. For a team that hasn’t won a national title since 1941, the Badger men’s basketball [...]

A pitch perfect freeze frame of the ICCAs

A pitch perfect freeze frame of the ICCAs

I wasn't going to write about our spontaneous trip to the Midwest Semi-Final round of the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella last week. (Mostly because I've written about Fundamentally Sound so many times I'm worried I made the awkward transition from proud mom to crazy stalker fan that has to sneak past security to [...]

An open thank you note to the people who taught my kids to sing

An open thank you note to the people who taught my kids to sing

In the span of five days, my son and his a ccapella group sang from a rickety river deck in Wisconsin's North Woods, for surprised patrons of the Washington Inn, to his grandma and our next-door neighbors in the living room of our house, and in University Hospital's ICU ward. They sing for the love [...]