Daughter Number Three

I've flown in and out of Washington National Airport (DCA) a number of times, mostly in the 1980s when I lived in D.C. It always felt a ...

I have a love-hate (mostly hate) relationship with the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport. I think, if we are serious about climate change, we hav...

Woodman's is a beloved Wisconsin grocery institution. It's employee-owned and well-run.  We stopped at one in Eau Claire to charge t...

It's summer, and that means a family reunion trip into Wisconsin, and — as in most years — a stop at School House Antiques in Hixton . T...

I vaguely knew about the 1967 Detroit riots (also called the Detroit rebellion or uprising), since I mentioned them in this post , but I don...

Family reunions often bring me into the middle of Wisconsin, and I like to check out the public library in the nearby towns. Often they'...

In Mauston, Wisconsin, there's a metal commercial building near the edge of the downtown area that has had a few letters taken from its ...

For anyone not paying attention, the Department of Homeland Security — that part of the government that was established after 9/11 with the ...

There are so many things (so many!) about our current situation that I don't comment on here. Who has the time? Here's one that allo...

It's always great to learn something from Sarah Taber about the reality of farming. Today it's how farming could work (and used to w...

Today I caught part of the NPR (WAMU) program 1A , where they were discussing the layoffs of 15% of the State Department's staff. Among ...

There was a long thread on BlueSky a week ago , in which the poster said, I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equi...