This was a tough woman. Ms. Wagner was the dean of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire school of nursing during  my college years.  She was a woman of strength and…View post

It’s so fun to be just plain proud of someone. From a Wall Street Journal review of Chicago’s recent Lollapalooza shows: Local music, really.  Even when he’s in Belgium.

Two years ago we took our then-seven-year old daughter to see Merchant of Venice at the American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin.  She drank it in, loved it, and…View post

By the time you read this we should be back home.  Spent the week in the Mineral Point area courtesy of the folks at Shake Rag Alley, who asked me…View post

Back on chicken butchering day we boiled up a big old tub of gizzards and livers.  Dumped’em in the hog trough.  Y’really haven’t lived until you ‘ve watched a pig…View post