by Judy Kolosso | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Our hospital conversation turns to snow and bitter cold, how it is the same this year as when we walked to school, snow way up over our galoshes, how it made those red rings where leg and boot came together. He remembers snowbound days, our impassible driveway when he...
by Kathleen Dale | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Molecules of our bodies only lightlybind, allow for life by not releasing,in their coupling, enough heat to burnthemselves to ashes, allow for death by easilylosing interest, and unlinking. What allows us to live permits us to die,so we never really fasten.Marriage,...
by Margaret Lewis | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
The beginning of our 140th year as the Wisconsin Academy is a fine opportunity to look back-and look forward. Throughout the pages of this magazine and in our Academy Evenings lectures of 2009 we highlighted Wisconsin’s homegrown superstars. Whether it was stem...
by Jason Smith | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
As my wife and I frantically attempted to stanch the flow of water that spread over our laundry room with towels and a wheezing Shop Vac, that old, familiar phrase about “the joys of home ownership” echoed in my head. The laundry room in our new—it was...
by Reginald Baylor, Jason Smith | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
It’s cold. The kind of cold where you breathe in gasps. I’m in Milwaukee to meet and take photos of up-and-coming painter Reginald Baylor, and all I can think is, I should have worn a warmer coat. Clouds of exhalation form cartoon-like thought bubbles over Baylor’s...
by E.M. Cofer | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Blackbirds gather from marshy summer homes and fly to town, collecting at the Meadowdale Coffee Shop. Perched at tree-top tables, they speak family secrets of swallowtail relations and how the buzzard wars have gotten out of hand. They gripe about the livestock market...
