I was a curly-headed kindergartner who figured his grandfather would live forever. I figured wrong ...
In a normal year, this would be the issue of Chippewa Valley Family where we would look forward to the school bell ringing for the last time (for a…
Hey, Chippewa Valley: Welcome to spring! Or maybe more winter. The well-worn joke about Wisconsin weather is that if you don’t like it you can wait…
Now that the holidays are over and the most frigid time of the year has set in, it’s far too easy for our field of vision to narrow down to what we…
On one of the darkest days of the year, three days out from Christmas, I was battling a head cold and an aching body. I was in no mood for Christmas…
We got an early dose of winter this year, thanks to 7 inches of snow in late October, and – I have to say – it was magical. True, the snowblower…
We may live amid a unique set of historic circumstances – most of them unenviable – in the year 2020, but the river has seen far more than we can…
Ah, summertime and the living is … complicated. Granted, even before the coronavirus, summertime living wasn’t exactly easy. More than half ...
My plan was simple: invent a time machine, make a brief trip to the 16th century, disparage a hot-headed knight, get challenged to a joust by the…
