Opinion

On Wisconsin

It’s always a pleasure to offer reading suggestions with a Wisconsin theme or connection and today’s column will feature several.  There will still be a featured book, but with an abbreviated review, and we’ll lead off with that.

All you can eat

Marjan the lion

One morning, I helped dig a wolf’s grave. We stood around,  taking turns with the shovel. At first, there was something exciting about it. But soon, the novelty wore off. 

“Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer is a book that kept appearing on my path since its publication in 2013.  While recommended to me by several trusted sources, I avoided reading it without knowing why.  In this case procrastination paid off, as the pandemic’s lessons about the importance of gratitude likely opened me to a more meaningf

To: Joe Block, Editor, Star News: 

The Black Earth Historical Society is pleased to announce that on August 16, 2021, it received a Wisconsin Humanities Recovery Grant in the amount of $9,986 for the “Creation of Digital/Searchable Archives of Black Earth Newspapers”. 

The bear cub...

My daughter, who is seven, recently put on a sweatshirt, pulled the hood down low over her face, and pretended to gaze vacantly into an imaginary phone in her hand, oblivious to the magnificent world around her. 

An Unforgettable Story

Dear editor,

Beyond good & bad

A woman won the lottery. All of her friends stopped by to congratulate her. 

“You won $10 million!” they said. “That’s great! You are so lucky.”

“Maybe,” she replied. 

I remember seeing a trailer 11 years ago for a movie called “The Tooth Fairy.” It was a film in which a wrestler called The Rock played an aging and jaded hockey player who went by the nickname, “The Tooth Fairy” because he knocked out so many players’ teeth.