by svsauthor | Nov 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
Manyu was not out of town for more than a day when I tried to pick up a young woman outside the supermarket. She was standing alongside a grocery cart full of food when I went into the store, and she was still standing there when I came out. After I loaded my own...
by svsauthor | Nov 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
Is it better to clean the gutters while Manyu is gone so I am not constantly reminded to be careful, or should I do it while she is home so there is someone to call 911 if I fall off the ladder? It’s a good question, but it’s also a moot one. This year about half of...
by svsauthor | Nov 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
Thursday and Friday mornings I sit at the welcome desk of our neighborhood nature center. My days of leading groups in the outdoors are over, but I am happy to sit behind a desk for four hours a week and free up the paid staff to do the work that they were hired to...
by svsauthor | Nov 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
Two Sundays ago on a drive home from Winona, I tuned into public radio to catch the last part of Wisconsin Today. I was expecting coverage of the October 18th No Kings protests, but instead got a story about fishing. Not just any fishing, but street fishing. Street...
by svsauthor | Oct 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
In William Kent Krueger’s most recent novel, the first page is about leafless trees, total darkness by 8pm, and the aches and pains of climbing out of bed.* There is no doubt in my mind that the seventy-four year old author wrote these words on a day much like...
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