by svsauthor | Apr 26, 2026 | Uncategorized
Each spring I am full of hope in terms of my yard. The grass is green, and the weeds, but for dandelions, have yet to fully emerge. I dive into yard work and optimistically think that this might be the year when a little effort in April and May will pay off come July...
by svsauthor | Apr 19, 2026 | Uncategorized
My daughter Clare turned twenty-seven years old last month. Her birthday made me wonder where I was and what I was doing when I was the age that Clare is now. Adding twenty-seven to my year of birth revealed that the year was 1981. It was January 1981 when I put my...
by svsauthor | Apr 12, 2026 | Uncategorized
I recently watched the new PBS series about Henry David Thoreau. I did not learn much that I didn’t already know, but it got me to pick up my old copy of Walden. I own four copies of the book, three of them gifts from family members, but I always read from the same...
by svsauthor | Apr 5, 2026 | Uncategorized
When I moved to western Wisconsin in 1993, I thought that the cities of La Crosse, Wisconsin and Rochester, Minnesota were similar to each other. La Crosse had two universities (which Rochester did not have), and Rochester had the Mayo Clinic, but otherwise the two...
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