The light showed up on my kitchen table. As it had been a while since we'd seen each other, I stopped, stared, and watched it move with purpose toward the other side. The morning sun dappled through the lead-glass pane and beckoned me, so I dropped everything, closed my laptop, found my coat and followed, [...]
Until Green Bay meteorologist, Justin Steinbrinck first mentioned it a three days ago, I had never heard of ice fog and I've lived through 57 winters. It sounded kind of cool to me, though, like something Jack Frost would dance through, or Alfred Hitchock would produce outside a dimly lit rear windows. Turns out, it's [...]
Magic happens when you wake up on a leisurely Saturday morning and discover the greatest winter gift of a Midwestern childhood -- packy snow. By Saturday evening our neighborhood looked like a George Lucas snow globe. One family spent the day building a giant snow arch for the mailman, and another built a castle and [...]
You’re supposed to set a new intention each time you practice yoga and mine never varies. I can’t help it. I am always sincerely and profoundly grateful to be there. When the teacher tells me to choose a word, I choose gratitude. When she asks me to complete the sentence “I am…” I think “lucky”. [...]
We’re very impressed with you here in Wisconsin. You’ve racked up some record numbers and enjoyed the kind of week we’ll all be talking about for years. Why, just the other morning you scored a -26 on my car’s dashboard temperature gauge and that’s without any help from the wind. You closed schools and essential [...]
