07/29/09

Win or Lose

Like most humans, I win some and I lose some. I got an electric-start lawnmower this summer, but I fell off my neighbor's stoop last week and maybe broke my foot.

My eight-year-old daughter lights up my life when she sings, but I can't stop biting my fingernails in time for my high-school reunion.

I'm in good enough shape to run charity 5Ks, but I can't give blood because I ate meat in the UK back when mad cow disease was going around.

I won't get to retire whenever I feel like it, but I get to go to work with the neatest people on the planet.

Take Mary Erpenbach. When I was hired as the magazine's associate editor, Mary was the interim AE who couldn't wait to hand me the July issue to finish. She was a writer not an editor and the minutiae of the job, not to...

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07/22/09

Blog More, Sun Less

Who on earth can blog when it’s beautiful outside? When your kid’s room needs a fresh coat of purple paint? When you’re trying to re-launch a magazine website?

Well, Madison Magazine contributing writer Maggie can. But she has a room of her own and ads on her blogs. That’s blogs-zzz ... plural. Here's the other one. She's the founder and moderator.

Style editor Shayna can, because fashion and style wait for no one. Meanwhile she’s still managed to work on her tan. Outside. In a...

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07/22/09

Summer Reading

Okay people, you are in for a treat.

In yet another attempt to avoid writing anything that requires me to miss out on the beautiful weather we’re having here in Wisconsin (minus today ... it’s a little brisk) I have pestered some of the nicest and most talented writers in the state, no, in the world, to find out what they are reading right now.

Dwight Allen, author of the newly released novel The Typewriter Satyr:

"I have been reading the new translation of

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