Photo by Reunion Restaurant on Facebook December 8, 2024 I seem to have devoted a disproportionate amount of blog space to describing the closing of various restaurants and coffee shops. It made at least some sense during the pandemic. Today’s installment, however, comes from a place of shock and knee-jerk reactions. This could be theContinue reading “Setting the Record Straight on Reunion”
Author Archives: Driftless Grace
Double Down on Community for Home-Grown Hope
November 11, 2024 Before last week’s fraught election, our nation experienced the annual “fall back” into standard time. Many of us are hurting from this one-two punch (especially the second one). No fan of November myself, I am sensitive to the outward darkness and have developed techniques over the years to keep it from translatingContinue reading “Double Down on Community for Home-Grown Hope”
Light Night
September 5, 2024 A few evenings ago, I was taking a walk and pondering the dual subject of endings and beginnings in life. My thoughts had just started to turn dark (and lean toward the “endings” side of things) when I looked up and noticed the nighthawks. Not to be confused with the Edward HopperContinue reading “Light Night”
Night Light
May 18, 2024 I missed both of the recent appearances of the Northern Lights. On the first night, while others posted gorgeous photos, the aurora by my house was doing its best impression of clouds. The next night, I was so excited to see it that I went to my viewing spot far too earlyContinue reading “Night Light”
Letter to the Editor
Mismanagement would be the only force at work in Northland closure March 12, 2024 When I was a student at Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin, I heard a rumor that our professors were the lowest-paid college faculty in the state. The claim was repeated less as a complaint than a badge of honor: these professionals,Continue reading “Letter to the Editor”
Growing Excitement
February 17, 2024 Let it be known: the stereotype of gardeners fawning over seed catalogs in the dead of winter is entirely true. This year, I broke some kind of record by putting in my order before Christmas. My previous gardening endeavors have been a corner of my dad’s community garden plot, half of aContinue reading “Growing Excitement”
Coffeeland Elegy
December 30, 2023 It’s no secret that I love coffee and coffee shops. In the nearly four years since I started this blog, I’ve mentioned (or included a photo of) coffee 35 times. There is even a coffee musical in my recent past. For some reason, the subject is endlessly fascinating to me. I alsoContinue reading “Coffeeland Elegy”
Ten Years Later
“Sauk Prairie Remembered” painting by Victor Bakhtin August 6, 2023 My attempt to type up my old journals has long fallen to the wayside. But I still occasionally dust them off to see what I was doing and thinking on a certain date in past years. This might not warrant a blog post, except thatContinue reading “Ten Years Later”
Pretty Good Kitty
©2021 Jen Salt June 18, 2023 Today’s post is more personal than usual despite not being about a person. Unless you’ve known me for a long time – or unless you’re a cat owner – it’s hard to convey how much of a role my family’s cat has played in my life. Suffice it toContinue reading “Pretty Good Kitty”
Illumination
May 16, 2023 It recently came about that my modest outdoor seating area got an upgrade in the form of lighting. I’ve never been against such a thing, but I admit it also never occurred to me before now. It wasn’t until the lights were up and running that I realized what a spartan existenceContinue reading “Illumination”
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