Young people’s processes of meaning-making in relation to what it means to live well are supported by the shared understandings of the good life that are available in their particular sociocultural and historical contexts. These understandings are tied
I always get a kick out of hiking above the tree line, of visiting places that I’d been seeing in Sierra Club calendars for years, thinking, "I really want to go there." Hiking over John Muir Pass and then on to Gifford Pinchot Pass -- the legacy of American conservation is just w...
places where I could go walking, but part of what appealed to me about it was seeing the changing trees and that doesn’t happen here. Plus, the point was to be able to walk without having to drive anywhere. There’s no art to the scenery of Houston compared to Wisconsin and Vermont...
- Winner's location: California, Wisconsin Two tickets split this jackpot, and the couple with thewinning ticket in Wisconsinmay have been in for a shock after learning how much went to the taxman. They chose the cash option for their half of the winnings, which totaled $225.1 million, th...
In science news,a yeast strainhas also pushed back… or perhaps been pushed back by the lab coat wearers at the University of Wisconsin: A key trait of yeasts used in beer production is the ability to break down maltose, the most abundant sugar in the material used to brew beer. The ...
That’s not a dealbreaker. Elizabeth Reese, 40, co-founder of Chasing Paper in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, transformed a small, unused space on her stairwell landing into a calming corner. “I installed a beautiful wallpaper, added tons of comfortable pillows, a soft fabric bench, and books,” sa...
Just last year (I’m writing on January. 1, 2022) a heat dome over the Pacific Northwest fueled unprecedented wildfires, floods in other areas, and droughts in still other places displacing thousands and millions in China to the point scientists issued a “code red for humanity”. That’s ...
That’s not a dealbreaker. Elizabeth Reese, 40, co-founder of Chasing Paper in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, transformed a small, unused space on her stairwell landing into a calming corner. “I installed a beautiful wallpaper, added tons of comfortable pillows, a soft fabric bench, and books,” sa...
No wonder people take winter vacations. To make up for the Christmas vacation. Not as rushed as the holiday-time photo contest kept me a decade ago. That’s the winner from 2012 up there by Robert Gale, one of 36 photo entries I posted on just one day in that long contest period. ...
detailing what I wanted to do each day. To that I say: I learned from the best. My dad made a binder, complete with tab dividers for each city we were visiting, when we took a trip to California when I was younger. Clearly, this has scarred/helped me in planning my own vacations....