I took my walk to work yesterday down by the lake -- Lake Mendota. That makes the walk a few blocks longer, but the lake has its mystic pull for the solitary individual, as I was and often am on my walks around Madison. My camera…
There were a lot of sailboats... A lone heron, out there... That red-winged blackbird, nesting in the willow... The fishing guy went in knee deep... And the poor chipmunk -- no, it's not dead -- but its chipmunky way of darti…
The kids raised money for the Special Olympics by promising to jump in Lake Mendota. Then it turned out to be -17 on the day they'd promised to do it. According to Paul Taylor, a University of Wisconsin freshman, officials h…
Here 's the new campus project: UW-Madison is unveiling details of its proposed $10 million East Campus Mall that will run from Regent Street to a grand esplanade opening on a view of Lake Mendota. The seven-block mall will …
I had Chris drop me off near the Capitol Square this morning because I wanted to look at a model condominium. Sometimes I think of selling my big house in University Heights and moving to a pristine apartment downtown with a glor…