| PUBLISHER LETTER | A Simple Feeding Dear Reader, I’m no expert on taking care of babies…not by a long shot. Upon hearing that I had recently changed a diaper, my son-in-law comically responded, “3 kids, 7 grandchildren, 1 diaper Well done!!!” When our three daughters were born and raised some time ago, my wife Mary shouldered the lion’s share of the day-to-day childcare responsibilities

| ENJOY EVERY SANDWICH | Some Songs for (Almost) Summer MITCHELL BRADLEY KELLER EDITOR The sausages will be sizzlin’, the porches packed and the campsites crammed from here on out: Welcome to (almost) summer in Wisconsin. I will assume for a second, dear readers, that you are at least a little bit like me. After months of snow, cold and rain, I like to start summer as soon as possible

| RURAL WRITES | G.A. SCHEINOHA CONTRIBUTOR Solitude decays past caring. Okay, not the greatest line ever written by this poet. Shakespeare’s hasn’t stirred, much less roll over Beethoven. Yet the sentiment expressed fits the personal situation recently. What brought it to fruition was dredging the muck of the distant past’s riverbed. Who knew a fiction drawn from almost