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Maybe it's having spring thoughts that spurs the clean-up machine within me. Or maybe it's that I'd been lax with my weekly scru...

Today I learned patience. I spent seven hours on a project that ultimately failed. I'd let you know what it was, but, in the spirit of f...

A few math problems for you, to keep your brain cells sharp: First of all, if Isis spends 80% of the day napping and Ed spends about half ...

I asked in my classes today if anyone really truly liked Valentine's Day. I was thinking that maybe women would say yes, men would say n...

A pretty interlude. Not a gorgeous day, not one that screams beauty at you, but one that lifts up your heart just a tiny bit. I wake up to...

A Tuesday in the middle of February.   Don't hold me accountable for the text here: my thoughts wander on days like this. To the p...

Anyone who is predisposed against farm living ought not keep reading. There's too much of the rural stuff. Too much of stray animals and...

All good things today took place indoors. Why? Well, outside, it was like this: So, back to the indoors. Breakfast at a coffee shop, w...

Several points. Up north, they don't run away from the cold. This morning, downtown Wausau was abuzz. Second point: if you stay ...

Ocean readers with young children, you have no excuse! Up north (or, for us Madisonians it's up north!), the whole family takes to th...