by Marilyn Taylor | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
She simply settled down in one piece right where she was,in the sand of a long-vanished lake edge or stream—and died. —Donald C. Johanson, paleoanthropologist When I put my hand up to my faceI can trace her heavy jawbone and the socketsof...
by Sara Raab | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
… They had to name, they had to remember, or things would not be named and remembered if they did not do it. — Carlos Fuentes These are the new stories, our response to the sorrow of light arriving and dying...
by Ellen Kort | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
When I go to the grocery store and stand in front of the shelf filled with jars of honey every brand spells the word Mama early morning toast sliced from a loaf of homemade bread spread with honey dipped from the little wax rooms of bees Honey was a luxury at our...
by Jim Armstrong | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Why? Why does an environmentalist protect a special prairie just outside of Eau Claire? Why does a poet find the beginnings of a sonnet in an orchard in Bayfield, or a novelist the plot-toend-all-plots in a Milwaukee café? Why does a team of research scientists seek...
by Jason Smith | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
With the end of 2010 came the closing of a venerable artist residency and community center pivotal to artistic and cultural life Wisconsin. Established in 2004 by the nonprofit Terry Family Foundation, Edenfred was dedicated to the development of the arts and culture...
by Jason Smith | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
What does the word compassion mean to you? If you had to draw a picture of it, could you? In Appleton a unique collaborative project is taking shape, challenging through the merger of the sciences, arts, and letters the ways in which we consider compassion and what it...
