Jim Bartlett
January 11, 2018
Ann and I don’t usually take long vacations. We started 2018, however, with a nine-day trip, the longest one we’ve been on together in something like eight years. Our first stop was to visit Ann‘s sister and her family, who live in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC. We decided to drive it this time, […]
kiernan
January 10, 2018
I decided to try an experiment by taking myself off social media for a week. I recently posted an angry rant on Facebook about not being serviced by a company when I wanted them to. I was mad. Social media was there as an easy vent, to let the world know how mad I was. […]
Magic 98
January 8, 2018
Our latest Kid of the Week is 19-month-old Macey from Beaver Dam. She was nominated by her mother, Ashley, who tells her story: “Macey was born eight weeks early at two pounds, 15 ounces. Miraculously, she stayed in the NICU for only 23 days and came home a whopping four pounds, three ounces! She’s done […]
January 2, 2018
Meet Oaklyn, our latest Kid of the Week. She’s three months old and lives in Janesville. She was nominated by her great aunt Lana, who says, “She’s the beautiful daughter of Morgan and Kyle. She has the most beautiful smile and such a sweet baby.” Oaklyn wins prizes from Madison Property Management and Thompson Investment […]
December 31, 2017
When I was a kid, I was quite a nerd. (Cue people who know me personally: “What do you mean, ‘was’?”) I used to watch baseball games on TV and keep statistics in my own little scorebook. And for a lot of years before I was old enough to do anything else on New Year’s […]
Kathryn Vaughn
December 30, 2017
Some Christmases really hold up to the test of time. Back in the day, all my in-laws and I would celebrate the day by first going bowling. There were 20 of us taking over the lanes. They were all good bowlers, but if I broke 100, I was thrilled. It didn’t matter, though. I got […]
Cailynn Hensen
December 18, 2017
We are celebrating Christmas with my side of the family on Saturday the 23rd and with my fiancée’s family on Christmas Day, and that has me thinking of peanut brittle. When I think of Christmas, the memories usually include peanut brittle … the making of it, the eating of it, the cravings after it’s gone. […]
Ellie is our Kid of the Week! She’s from Rio, she’s 2 1/2, and she was nominated by her grandma, Natalie. Natalie says, “Ellie became a big sister in May to Harper. She has been the best big sister. There is always music in her soul as she is always singing and dancing. Ellie has […]
December 15, 2017
No matter how cold it gets, I must go for my walk every day. I’m lucky to live so close to the Yahara Trail! I do love being out in nature, and animals are really so interesting. These days the geese and ducks sit on the ice floes, swim around, and goof off as if […]
December 11, 2017
Hope you had a good weekend! A great way to get through Monday is to play “Three-Word Weekend.” You pick three words that describe your weekend. (That’s it! No hard-hitting rules here.) Those three words can string together a sentence or they can be three separate words having nothing to do with each other—it’s totally […]