Part of my isolation time has been spending time on Ancestry.com. I actually sent in one of those DNA kits about a year ago, but never really …
I don’t know about you, but this warm weather makes me wish for wildflowers! I hiked on the Forest Lodge Nature Trail yesterday, and sunshine …
The muskellunge, a beloved fish for us in the Hayward area, has a strange affinity for dams. I have a lot of experience with this, both profes…
Coping with COVID-19 is alarming, frightful, isolating, and devastating to those losing loved ones to an invisible pathogen that could be anyw…
There is nothing I love better than to delve into a good book. Food for the mind and balm for the soul. Now into the second or third week of t…
How are you dealing with all this isolation therapy? Darned coronavirus! I guess you can look at it as a time to sit back, collect your though…
Although the depths of winter have passed, this is the season when we northerners really feel the cabin fever. Gone are the freshly groomed tr…
And so is pretty much everything else, at least for the foreseeable future. Did you ever imagine it?
These are strange times.
Holy schmoley! What is happening to our world? Some teensy tiny microscopic cootie has invaded all that we know to be right and true.
In this column last Feb. 13, 2020, I told you about Wisconsin’s fun-loving river otters. Since writing that story, I have come across and obse…
Now, one rule of writing is to write what you know. I know drivers of all types, but bad drivers, well, I like to think I'm not a member of th…
Earlier this winter, I chose a bluebird day to swoop joyfully around the 16k loop at the Rock Lake Ski Trails. Fox tracks trotted over the rec…
We move into that place where our parents once resided. Not literally of course, but if we attain a certain age we move figuratively, living i…
Just when you think there isn’t anything one can do about climate change, COVID-19 virus, oceans filling up with plastics, loss of almost thre…
I have a confession to make to my gentle readers. The needle on my moral compass has been spinning and weaving and bobbing of late. I hope at …
They’re about everyone else.
That's the title of a Rolling Stones song that I'm listening to at the moment. It's so true and so apt to life, isn't it? Sometimes I envy tho…
Have you ever visited the Forest Lodge Nature Trail? This hiking trail loops its way through beautiful fields, forests, swamps, and bogs near …
Spring fever, that is. March is a taunt and a tease. Water drips, drips, drips from the eaves, then freezes mid-drip to form an unusually-shap…
What was that loud thud on the side of the house at 6:03 in the evening? That was the question Beth Hupila was trying to answer at her home ne…
This time of the year, when spring enters into a tug of war with the remnants of Old Man Winter, I can't help but think of our northern lakes …
“Awooooo!” My best impression of a wolf howl rose over the crunching of snowshoes and little voices. Gesturing to the group of third-graders f…
Well, January and February came and went. In my long-ago childhood March was considered kite-flying weather. I know people kite ski, but it su…
I live a quiet life. You could even say it is a real yawn. I have spent the last few weeks painting cabinet doors so believe me when I say quiet.
Seeing the coastal redwood, the tallest tree on earth, should be on everyone’s bucket list! It is awe-inspiring to say the least and to say th…
To recap last week's saga of a 2002 trip to Jamaica, I was not allowed on the plane due to a wrong stamp on my birth certificate, sent my husb…
Impressive pillars of reddish-brown seemed to glow under gray skies as our small group of causal birders walked carefully along the narrow pat…
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