A long, long time ago when I worked in newsrooms far, far away, I liked to tell aspiring journalists my definition of news – it’s what people are talking about.
Maple syrup season – there’s a ritualistic sameness to it. When the long-awaited sapping season arrives I retrieve the appropriate tools and equipment from the high shelf in the corner
A week after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, country singer Toby Keith – who died Feb. 5 – wrote a patriotic ballad titled “Courtesy of the Red, White and
One constant I’ve noticed in myself as I’ve grown older is that I’ve become more reflective. Perhaps that comes with age, but there are times when I see or hear
The annual pancake supper was my favorite event when I was a kid in the 1950s and 1960s at our little church in Loyd, Wisconsin. The cows were milked earlier