Ocean

Beautiful day outside! – This from Ed, just a few minutes ago, as I force myself to poke out of the tent. The man who at home would never sa...

We’re a country that believes in the automobile. I understand that. Me, I worship technology in the form of the washing machine (I’ve lived ...

We’re setting out, Ed and I. We’re putting in kayaks just at the hydroelectric damn by Prairie du Sac. Ninety miles later, we’ll be at the o...

Every parent knows that a child can make you look at the world in a better way. I’ll add this – the child’s age is irrelevant. Adult kids ar...

They’re a big deal to me. Not only because they put me in touch with the people who generate great foods, but because they come closest to p...

It’s so uniformly green now. Days of green. Wisconsin green. Uninterrupted green. If this day looks different from a previous or the next on...

In the course of an ordinary day, I do not come even close to the inside of a car. Today, therefore, was most extraordinary, in an ordinary ...

As a kid, here’s what I was told: if it’s hot outside, you eat hot soup. And wear dark clothes. Ever see older women in Sicilian households?...

It’s in the headlines. In everyone’s greeting – so hot today! So incredibly hot! Oh… yes, it’s toasty warm! I’m walking to run errands and ...

You could say that I am not an inside-the-box type. It’s not that I don’t adhere to convention (Ed more properly sees himslef as being outsi...

The only difference between fatherhood and motherhood is that one is exclusive to men and the other to women, right? Yes, of course, one doe...

Faint strains of highland music make their way to the balcony. A bee is pushing at the yellow stamens of the rose. It’s become a routine: ou...

Most people don’t like sudden change. Seems violent. No time to adjust. Gradual’s good. Today though, I’ll stay on the side of flash, immedi...

My family will vouch for this: I was obsessed with organic foods (or at a minimum, fresh and honest foods) and an athletic lifestyle way be...

There is such wealth to summer days! I think of good weather as being up there with money – neither can make you happy, but to have a good a...