by Bob Wake | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
You have to admire a poetry chapbook whose self-contradicting opening line trumpets, “Now is not the time to begin …” The poem, “Digging in the Fat Box,” a kind of encomium to failed diets and body fat as symptoms of spiritual longing (“wanting / to be filled”), and...
by Laura Lane | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
A clock hangs in a great Northwoods lodge, but it has no hands. The sign below says, “Here there is no time.” This clock symbolizes Marnie Mamminga’s memories of spending every summer for over sixty years at her family’s cabin on Big Spider Lake, near Hayward,...
by Jane Elder | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
My garden is usually a source of pleasure, but in early June the weird events in my favorite little space left me unsettled. I’ve been tending the same front-yard garden for more than 25 years, and I’ve never seen an aster bloom in June. Usually, the asters are the...
by Liam Kane-Grade | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
As Donna Neuwirth sees it, the recent economic downturn has created an opportunity for Wisconsinites to re-imagine our relationship with food and entertainment. “We’re in an interesting time when we have to do more for ourselves,” says Neuwirth, Executive Director of...
by Jason Smith | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
The fever started during lunch at a friend’s cabin on the Wisconsin River this spring. Over sandwiches and homemade potato salad, my friend offered us an open-ended invitation to stay for a week at the cabin during the summer. Still in giddy shock at the generosity of...
by Dion Kempthorne | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
I loved the words, the names,when I was a boy whenhis blue eye turned meto the muscular heft of arms,Winchester and Remington, the smell of gun oil and gun powder,the thumbed-smooth feel of wood and steel,the slick liquid clatter of lever actions,the lovely locking in...
