I asked my mother last night if she had ever used a gas station bathroom and she looked at me aghast. "Absolutely not," she said. "Do you know me?" I do. And, I may have been baiting her because my mom also has never pumped her own gas. In fact, I have only ever seen [...]
He would have been as taken aback by this global pandemic as the rest of us, but my dad knew all about social distancing. In fact, that was his aim when he bought an isolated chunk of farm land more than 40 years ago. He wanted a place where he could roam the woods like [...]
We all do just about anything Molly asks us to do because she bakes us tasty things. So, when she asked us to help her recreate Edward Hopper's Nighthawks last night, we agreed. (It helped that she had just plied us with a really tasty Cinco de Mayo meal of pork carnitas.) Hopper's Nighthawks eloquently [...]
I have Jumped Around on multiple occasions at Camp Randall, including football games and graduations. But, one of my favorite Jump Arounds to date happened Saturday afternoon on Pondview Court in Appleton. Led by my mother, we joined her neighborhood in a celebration of all that is great and virus-proof in Wisconsin. Laughter, for example, [...]
We tried to socially distance ourselves Sunday afternoon at the Navarino State Wildlife Area, but we ran into a loud bunch of amorous Anura amphibians -- frogs for those who aren't making a pretentious, alliterative jump. We heard them before we saw them and I found myself thoroughly charmed, until our resident biologist pointed out [...]