I think my face might have been a little sunburned from my delightfully warm walk along the river, because it really hurt when the wind whipped icy pellets at it the next morning as I scraped a thick frost off my windshield. "Come on, Wisconsin!" I yelled. "You're better than this!" From T-shirts on Tuesday [...]
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Daylight Savings Rhyme
The Wealthy Child
December’s secret
Here's December's secret: there's magic in the air. And each sleeting windstorm carries it somewhere. It dusts the ground below your feet to lighten up your step and turns your boots to dancing shoes, your schlep to pirouette. The season can be tricky when folks carry such a load and all their Christmas wishes can't [...]
Let’s live like Wisconsin in October
Let’s live like Wisconsin in October and let the sun light us with unabashed glee even as winter looms. Let’s wink and shimmy our russet leaves, hoist them high and proud and then let them fall without regret. Let’s keep our rustic roads all spruced up so they’re always ready to welcome wanderers. And, when [...]