Saying Farewell to Chris Kegel of Wheel & Sprocket
For Wheel & Sprocket CEO Chris Kegel, bikes were a vehicle to touch lives and make a difference in the community.
Journalism as an act of grace
In fourth grade, to Sister Clarita at St. Raphael’s Elementary School, I announced I would be a writer. Had I known about jobs with more status and better pay, I might have announced my intention to become a chief financial officer of a reality television network, but c’est la vie. I attended journalism school in the […]
A cancelled series shows women’s inequality is still at work
Once upon a time, in 1969, women weren’t “allowed” to wear slacks at the office. This wasn’t for modesty—miniskirts and tight dresses were fine, 9–5. The dress code was to keep gender differences clearly delineated, as in the classic insult to assertive wives: “She wears the pants in that family.” When the chino ceiling finally […]
Another reason to love ‘Gilmore Girls’
Oh, to live in Stars Hollow, where crabby but hunky Luke runs the diner, quirky Kirk holds a long string of peculiar jobs, and a single mother and her daughter can be seen as a legitimate and respectable family. On television and in film, single mothers are too often portrayed as hapless victims, struggling to […]
A Hideous Dress Bought Second-hand for a Nerd Prom Carries a Macabre Secret
Just how a monstrosity of a dress – worn by a murderess – wound up in this writer’s closet.
The Kids Are All Right
The first thing I mothered was a turtle the size of a silver dollar pancake that I bought for 88 cents at Woolworth’s. The store clerk handed over Herman (I believe there was some legal requirement then that all turtles be named Herman) in a tiny Chinese takeout box, and his little claws scrabbled against […]
A Milwaukee Woman Reflects on our City’s Over-50 Online Dating Scene
Searching for the fish in a modern dating sea.
Milwaukee County Supervisor Notices Hillary is A Girl
Deanna Alexander’s “ovary” remarks should not be mistaken for insightful political commentary.