Sometimes it takes a funeral to find out the scope and reach and impact of what a person did when they were living! My Aunt Mary died last month, at the age of 82. She was a history teacher, and after she had retired from teaching history she threw...

As any parent knows, rationality goes right out the window when we're sitting by the bedside of...

There was a mouse in my stove, and this time I vowed "no mercy!" Yeah, right. Like we haven't...

My stove got a workout over the past week and half for the holidays. I've been an empty-nester...

There are a lot of different things that can go into a "perfect" motorcycle ride--weather, scenery, destination, the company you're with. But it was a pair of absolutely brazen ducks raiding our picnic lunch by the side of a lake in Wisconsin that put...

Announcing the arrival of “Heck on Heels,” my new collection of essays! Here's the text of the press release I'm sending out into the universe... "This is the second collection of essays by award-winning Wisconsin writer and photographer...

I went to a concert by Scottish fiddler extraordinare Alasdair Fraser and his musical partner,...

I like to think that you can find a lot of happiness in small things, and I just bought a big...

As the rain and cold envelops my house this evening, I think it would have been lovely to...

The world of cyberspace is so amazingly and randomly connected, and can lead to such surprises!...