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…
There are books that we read and forget. There are those we remember for a little while. And there are those that we remember for a lifetime. Those…
For parents, the most heart-racing, adrenalin pumping moments happen when you let go and watch your child try something on his or her own. The moment…
Homesickness is an attachment to what children feel is familiar. It can occur at any point when they leave for their first sleepover, camp, college…
I grew up on Eau Claire’s west side, almost directly across the street from a huge empty lot. The lot was mostly covered by a field of tall grass…
