This past Saturday found me caught up in the mayhem that is the modern Christmas season. I needed to run to Walmart to get a couple of items—just 2! Of all things, can you imagine it, we ran out of coffee…in the Bice household? That’s another story. For reasons I’ll…
It all started, as I recall, with something like the ol’ cup-of-water-above-the-door prank. For the unenlightened, take a cup of water and rest it on top of a slightly ajar door, then when the next person enters, the cup tips toward the entering party, dousing them with 8 ounces of…
About a half-mile from our house, at the south end of our street, the city has built a nice recreation path running along the Rock River, through Sinnissippi Park, and ending at Hoover Park. It’s a great path for a Saturday afternoon walk. We took advantage of the milder late-winter…
For the last few weeks, almost everywhere you go, songs of the holiday season fill the air. Some radio stations have even been playing only Christmas music since before Thanksgiving, probably because of the shorter Thanksgiving-to-Christmas period. Have you paid any attention to what’s playing? If so, you’ve probably not…
How many times have you been walking along somewhere and semi-noticed a penny lying on the ground, only to keep on walking—after all, it really wasn’t worth stopping, stooping, and scooping up that little bit o’ copper? I’ve probably bypassed a dollar or so in my lifetime doing just that….
I’m currently looking at options for a couple of backpacking trips this summer. Not sure what I’ll do for one of them, but the other will take me back to the Ice Age Trail in Wisconsin—particularly the Kettle Moraine South section. Actually, Chris is planning to join me for this…
She had every reason—humanly speaking—to be discouraged…terribly discouraged. I was visiting one of our church ladies in the rehab section of a local nursing home. A few months ago, she had broken her leg—well, “shattered” might be a better term—and there have been a couple of surgeries, days of immobilization,…
