I sure like my band the Long Beds.  They show up for work on time, they mouth the words to my songs when I turn to them live and mid-verse…View post

The two-year-old Jane wants to go for a walk and Dad needs to go for a walk (ironically, after years of being run over by bulls and haybales and bikes…View post

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