

A Wintry Mix
It's 20 degrees outside right now in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, a sweetheart of a town that I have embraced with an enthusiasm that baffles...


Food for Thought
Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, begins tonight at sundown and continues until sundown tomorrow. We fast in repentance for our...


My Big Fat Midwestern Life
It's one of those textbook late summer mornings here in the Milwaukee suburbs. The lawn is dry and embarrassingly brown, and the cicadas...

I got you, Babe...
West Hartford, Connecticut, where I grew up, is such a typical New England suburb that movies requiring a typical New England suburb were...