From my most politically savvy friends – Heike posted this joke to from the Capitol last night: A public union employee, a tea party activist, and a CEO are sitting at a table with a plate of a dozen cookies in the middle of it. The CEO takes 11 of the cookies, turns to the […]
Here in Wisconsin it’s day 14 of the protests at the Capitol. Half the time I feel like this is too big to be ignored – there were probably 100,000 of us yesterday, marching in the snow – to my eyes, absolutely more than last week’s 70,000. But on the Sunday talk shows, Gov. Weasel […]
I ordered the thing from Crate & Barrel; the local Bed Bath & Beyond carries the brand – Simple Human – but not this model. But that drip tray with downspout to the sink means that I don’t have to pick up the drainer and do my OCD wiping of the counter beneath everytime I […]
One of the first things I did when I moved to Wisconsin in August of 1977 was go walk the picket line at Madison Newspapers, Inc., where the printers were on strike, and the editorial union, the writers, went out in support. The technology changed and the company didn’t give the workers a chance to […]
Over the weekend, we went from arctic to temperate – it was in the mid-30s on Saturday, and up to 46°s on Sunday. A huge amount of the snowpack has melted, but fortunately, we’ve been having warm wind that evaporates everything – no rain – so even though there are some [deep] puddles in the […]
Before we had all the excitement of the Superbowl, we had all the excitement of the blizzard – about a foot and a half of snow that fell on the night of February 1, with high winds and drifting. It was a Tuesday, and we knew pretty much everything was going to be closed on […]
I hope I didn’t make the Steelers lose. As a Pittsburgh girl, who’s lived in Wisconsin for more than half my life, I tried to have an even mix of Packer food and Steeler food to eat during the game. The Milwaukee paper ran some recipes for Superbowl food – that’s what the football depicted […]
The folks that make the ‘sconnie shirts – as in Wi-scon-sin – have this Mr. Rodgers Neighborhood shirt: Don’t think they knew that the real Mr. Rogers Neighborhood is in Pittsburgh. Visiting Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood WQED Pittsburgh
I just participated in my 4th straight GrillN4peace. The first time, I didn’t even take a grill, just a bucket of bread dough to grill on someone else’s. The year after was the wet year; it was 40 degrees in february, and we stood in 6 inches of melt on top of the ice cube […]