This past weekend, we once again messed with our clocks, setting them back one hour to standard time. The past few days of a pre-5 p.m. sunset have really been messing with me and are a depressing sign that winter is just about here across Leader Land.

“Coomer is dead” stated a Milwaukee Journal article in March 1964. The Wisconsin Historical Society made a similar observation in 1978 calling Coomer a ghost town when a photo of the …

Sometimes I think we should stay someplace fancier. All our friends do.  When my husband, Peter, and I are in Mexico, we stay at Casa de los Soles, a small group of apartment-style rooms …

My sister and I told my mother we were throwing her a party for her 90th birthday.  “Not everyone knows I’m 90!” she said.  “Well, it’s good we tell …