by Kim Suhr | Mar 31, 2023 | Magazine Article
You settle into the couch with a cup of hot tea. In a beam of light at just the right angle, you stroke the cover of your book club’s latest selection, crack the spine, take a long, deep inhale of new-book smell, and start to read. Of course, you know the book’s...
by Christie Taylor | Mar 31, 2023 | Magazine Article
At nine a.m. on a perfect late summer day in a series of perfect late summer days, the temperature is starting to climb from a 65-degree low, the dew point is low, and the sky is merry with clouds. As the day goes on, the chirruping crickets will be joined by whining...
by Nickolas Butler | Mar 31, 2023 | Magazine Article
The afternoon light is failing as Nicholas Gulig and I march through knee-high snow on the sixteen acres of land my wife and I own south of Eau Claire. The same land where, years ago, Gulig and his wife Fon were married. He is holding a beautiful literary journal...
by Christopher Chambers | Mar 31, 2023 | Magazine Article
Anthony Bourdain, celebrity chef and provocateur, once said that good food and good eating involve an element of risk. I believe he was talking about oysters. One of my risky food experiences involved a different kind of seafood. As I recall, it was March or April in...
by Erika Monroe-Kane | Mar 31, 2023 | Magazine Article
I love to read. I always have. My bedside table and end tables bear significant towers of books waiting to be read or in various stages of completion, books paused in a transitional place before reading resumes or they move on, shared with a friend or finding a home...
by Christopher Chambers | Mar 31, 2023 | Magazine Article
The days are getting longer, the sun is shining on the thick drifts of snow we got last weekend, and my old dog, Clio, my companion for the past fifteen years, sleeps beside my desk as I think about winter, and spring. I’ve not yet embraced winter activities beyond...
