This woman pauses on her daily walk to let chickadees eat peanuts from her hand. I walked with her this weekend and was amazed by how much these lovely little birds trust her.

I love autumn light, especially as the sun is coming up.

A highlight of my recent North Dakota visit: Theodore Roosevelt National Park (North Unit).

If you’re going to be in southern Wisconsin on Thursday and you want to be part of Good Trouble Lives On, here’s your opportunity.

350+ people at the empty chair town hall for Bryan Steil tonight in Janesville, WI. People are committed to challenging the powers-that-be.

People came together Saturday to build bunk beds for the Next Steps Family Resilience Center in Beloit. For me, it was a weekend resistance activity to help make Monday tolerable.

There’s just a few colorful fall leaves still lingering on my street.

If only I had brought a book on today’s walk…

This nearby Wisconsin road is great for biking in summer and tree-gazing in winter.

Listening to the piano tuner do his work is so soothing that it inspired me to write an essay roughly 20 years ago. My piano tuner is now retiring after 28 years of keeping my piano in tune. His email says he still has the essay. It’s nice to know it mattered to him!

Here’s my girl!