by Jane Elder | Feb 15, 2016 | Magazine Article
Anyone reading this magazine will likely agree that writing can help us envision and shape our future. Writing enables us to capture ideas, reflect on and improve them, and share them widely. The power of great writing is that it can be personal and universal at the...
by Kathryn Gahl | Feb 15, 2016 | Magazine Article
I was sweating and drooling. It was April. I had almost made it through fifth grade. And now I was leaving the planet. Permanently. Until I heard, “Abigail, honey. Wake up!” I couldn’t. “You have a fever,” the voice said, panicky. It belonged to Jane, my mother,...
by Elizabeth Wyckoff | Oct 15, 2015 | Magazine Article
Few contemporary writers are able to capture the essence of small-town Wisconsin as meticulously or as relentlessly as Michael Perry. His bestselling memoirs—Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time; Truck: A Love Story; and Visiting Tom: A Man, A...
by Erica Kanesaka Kalnay | Oct 15, 2015 | Magazine Article
When the children drew pictures of our school, it always looked as if they were drawing a jail. They would start with a big rectangle, and then fill it with countless little squares until the windows started to overlap. Then they would draw a bigger rectangle around...
by Zachary Carlson | Jul 20, 2015 | Magazine Article
Like many Wisconsinites, I’ve spent plenty of summer nights listening to family and friends reminisce and tell stories as our campfire turned to embers. On some nights, the stories move between genres as the tellers take their turns: horror turns to comedy, or a...
