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Inside baseball
DID YOU KNOW that I once before was a regular columnist for the Kickapoo Free Press? It’s true. Just months after the paper’s inception, I was more surprised than anyone to find myself among the pages, sharing the mundane details of life here in Viroqua; life with my family, my dog, my rabbit, and my neighbors. And you people read it!
Leigh Anders |
Replace or restore windows?
HAVING SURVIVED ANOTHER Wisconsin winter, you may be looking at heading up a ladder to change your storm windows. Perhaps your windows were too drafty or rattled in the wind; maybe the only reason they don’t rattle is that they are painted shut. The end result is now you’re trying to decide: repair or replace?
David Romary |
The big picture
MAY IS THE most exciting time of the year for anyone interested in birds. There is so much to see and not enough time to see it all. I have no idea how to paint the entire canvas, so I will pick three species of birds and bugs from the Midwest as a way of offering perspective.
Dan Peak |
Don’t knock it ‘til you try it
MY HUSBAND CALLS me over to the edge of his vegetable garden by windmilling his right arm, a gesture of extreme excitement. His second crop of the season is poking its curly green leaves through the grass and creeping charlie, following on the heels of his first crop—onions in his vegetable garden, unpicked last fall and ready now to eat as scallions, once the soft outsides are peeled away.
Marilyn Leys - 1 opinion posted |
Remember those nasty yellow berries
THERE ARE MANY branching paths to learning, but one of the most important is a fascinating tendency of the human brain to latch onto negative experience. Neuroscientists sometimes call it “stickiness,” the unerring tendency of the brain to dwell upon negative experience more than positive.
Mark Taylor |
Ruminations on learning
I RECENTLY WATCHED the Oscar-nominated film An Education, a cautionary yarn about a young girl who is sucked into a questionably adult world with the consent of her parents, abandoning her plans to attend Oxford, and eventually learning about life, love, and innocence lost.
Matthew Voz |
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