by Jason Smith | Feb 7, 2017 | Magazine Article
One of the only “small-town” children’s museums in the nation, the Black Earth Children’s Museum offers engaging and unique play experiences for children ages two to ten. The brainchild of Black Earth residents and parents Aaron and Karen Carlock, the museum is...
by Jane Elder | Feb 7, 2017 | Magazine Article
It seems fitting that the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year for 2016 is post-truth: an adjective defined as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.”...
by Elizabeth Wyckoff, Karla Huston | Feb 2, 2017 | Magazine Article
On a late November afternoon at the Hoffman Memory Care Resource Center in Kaukauna, Karla Huston witnessed the power of poetry at work. She was leading her first program at a Memory Café—a gathering space for people experiencing memory loss—and trying to figure out...
by Bruce Dethlefsen | Dec 7, 2016 | Magazine Article
a cold wet compress to her foreheada brisk rub and warm breath on her pale little handsa shiver her eyes blink twice then openspring comes around slowly you gave your mom and mequite a scare there kiddohere feel my heartit’s good to have you back
by Amy Fichter | Nov 11, 2016 | Magazine Article
Voice: the breath’s tooth.Thought: the brain’s bone.Birdsong: an extension of the beak.Speech: the antler of the mind.—Robert Bringhurst, from Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology, by David Abrams As the animals go, we go. The photographs in Remnants are of...
by Georgia Ressmeyer | Nov 10, 2016 | Magazine Article
Yesterday morning I’m pretty sure it was yesterdayI started walking along the beach toward someone whowould meet me at my destination. Where it was orwho it was I can’t remember off the top of my head. I walked that way a hundred times before and knewmy feet would...
