Even under the best of circumstances, back-to-school season is a bittersweet, uncertain time. For those of us with children, that swirl of emotions…
At age 13, I sat down at my parent’s kitchen table with a spiral notebook, determined to become an author. With a choose-your-own-adventure plot in…
Somewhere outside of Sidney, Nebraska, I caught my son’s weary eyes in the rearview mirror. “Well,” I said, “you ready to turn back yet?”…
As the days grew longer and hotter at the beginning of summer, so did the lists of things to do. There’s the yardwork (the hot weather and long…
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…
