Lanette Hansen
February 25, 2016
Super Cool Place Alert | 98.1 FM Real Music Variety Madison, WI One weekend not long ago my husband, Marc, took our four year-old, Everett, to the UW Geology Museum. Yes . . . the Geology Museum! Yes…here in Madison! Who knew? It’s by Camp Randall and it’s free! The morning started out with Everett wanting to see a […]
Kathryn Vaughn
​It has been awhile since we had a view of Joe! I took this one day when he first woke up. He has been very sluggish this winter, (haven’t we all?) but there were years when he would sleep through the whole winter. I suppose in ‘turtle years’ he is a teenager. I had a dream about him some time back that […]
Jim Bartlett
Statistics say that about 200,000 Americans and 4.1 million people worldwide are Leap Year babies, born on February 29, the day that comes only once every four years. I am one of them. Once my nephews figured out they’d had more birthdays than I have had, they thought it was hilarious. When I was little, […]
kiernan
February is National Heart Month, so how appropriate that it happened to be the month that I thought I was having a heart attack. It all started one Friday evening when I just felt unusually tired–OK, exhausted. I thought I just need a good night’s sleep and I’ll feel so much better in the morning. Morning […]
February 9, 2016
It was Tuesday night. I had just gotten my little guy, Roman, to sleep, rocking him in the glider in his room, when the sirens started. It was 8:05. I remember this because we usually don’t hear many sirens around our neighborhood and this one was loud, and it kept going, so I took a […]
Many years ago, I worked with a woman who had been a high-school teacher in another life. She didn’t seem to be the kind of person who would embellish a story or pass off a made-up tale as real, so I am fairly sure the story below actually happened. In 1998, Sonny Bono died in […]
I love how the sound of scent of something can instantly transport you back in time to a great memory stored in your brain. That happened to me a couple of weekends ago when we were in the 40s and it started to feel like spring. I had left a load of clothes in the […]