Ocean

Welcome, 2019! As I open the farmhouse door to the world outside, I see the gentle and exquisitely beautiful side of a Wisconsin winter. ...

In Poland, it's Sylwester, in France -- Saint-Sylvestre, or more typically, réveillon du nouvel an . In Scotland it's Hogmanay. New...

I have always loved our Upper Midwest winter sunshine. Melting snow (what little we have) drips from your roof, hens plod their way through...

When I found out I would have these four days without kids in my life, I thought to myself -- my, that's going to be awfully quiet. But...

Not a single flake of snow today. None. We stayed just warm enough to ensure that anything coming down from that deeply gray sky would be w...

For many, many decades, I have taken a day out the last week of a calendar year to review my budget for the year gone by. I count up endles...

Sometimes I think filling your days with family care and pursuing friendships is like managing a career and a houseful of little kids all a...

We wake up on Christmas morning to snow. It's not significant. You may be able to fashion a snow ping pong ball out of it, but not much...