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The Leopold Bench
This story comes from a few different places. I don’t really know where to start, so here’s this: The boards are stored in the loft of the old stable at my family’s farm. The topmost ones are covered...
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He had the name before Grandpa bought him. I don’t know what I’d have called him if he needed one, but Patches suited him so it stuck. He was a black & white pinto equine, sized halfway between...
View ArticleGood News. Well ...
When I was a kid, 3rd or 4th grade, one of the other kids invited me to his place after school to attend a Good News Club meeting hosted by his mother. I went, not willingly but at the insistence of my...
View ArticleArchaeological Find: Fishing culture unearthed in Wisconsin
MADISON, WI, Tuesday, January 19, 2016 — The artifact pictured above was discovered a week ago just before noon on what was the coldest day of the winter, thus far. Consisting of a long twig that has...
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Purple Beads
These amethyst beads hang from the rear view mirror in my PT. I bought them in Istanbul six years ago, at a booth a few blocks off Taksim Square. It was my last night in the country; I'd had the good...
View ArticleDonald Trump’s War on Americans
Violence. There’s plenty of it around these days, in the streets, in the prisons, in private homes, in the damn weather. The visible, tangible, bruised and bloody public face of violence is nearly...
View ArticleA Real Servant of the Public
I’d like you to meet my Dad, Bob Hamele. He was, first and foremost, a cop. He ended his career in law enforcement by creating and serving as first Chief of the Wisconsin State Capitol Police.The op-ed...
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