By Patrick Wood Publisher Dear Reader, At a certain stage of adult life many of us find a unicorn-person that’s apparently real and not imaginary, and appears to be the perfect wing-person with whom to negotiate the minefields of life. We pledge ourselves to that person and embrace an amorphous mixture of independence and dependence. …
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By Patrick Wood Publisher Dear Reader, ‘Tis the season to be thankful. If you are reading this and are warm and have a cup of coffee, perhaps even a bagel in front of you to sip and munch on, you’re probably doing better than about half of the 7.5 billion people on the planet that …
By Patrick Wood Publisher Dear Reader, Nowadays and perhaps before, there seems to be a constant pressure to conform, fit in and take the normal route. If some people don’t fall into a set of expectations, society tries to change them or medicate them or shun them. Perhaps we need to rethink this. Everyone is unique with …
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By Patrick Wood Publisher Dear Reader, As we age, we can tend to become somewhat set in our ways. Thinking outside of the box for many of us becomes less attractive as we take comfort in the familiar and the predictable. We rarely deviate from our routine. We go to the same places and socialize …
By Patrick Wood Publisher Dear Reader, We are all transients of life’s phases and circumstance. We spend time with each other for durations of years, months, weeks, moments. Then we move on to be with others depending on what stage of aliveness we’re in. It’s not that we have stopped loving when we have moved …
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By Patrick Wood Publisher Dear readers, We have a very direct request of you today, as part of the follow-up to our recent statewide reporting and editorial project on homelessness in Wisconsin: Please call today and urge your state senator to support Senate approval of eight nonpartisan bills that would launch $7.5 million in new …
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By Patrick Wood Publisher Dear Reader, For the past month, we have been participating in a statewide editorial campaign on the topic of homelessness, an outcome of a symposium we initiated involving legislators, the business community, service providers and members of the media. As a newspaper that reports on local communities and advocates for local business patronage in efforts …
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By Patrick Wood Publisher Dear Reader, This week, all Multi Media Channel publications and websites are collaborating with other newspapers across Wisconsin to bring new attention and, ideally, new action to a challenge that has plagued our state for decades – homelessness. There are thousands of children across Wisconsin who are homeless every day. And veterans. …
By Patrick Wood Publisher Dear Reader, Autumn is here and with it is the temporary sleep or death of much of the beauty around us. As an example, you can see the immense effort the leaves on the trees make to die. They fall in single blazes of glory, a magnificent swan song of departure. With …
By Patrick Wood Publisher Dear Reader, Every now and then some of us drop to the bottom of the universe. Maybe we hit a stretch of bad health or lose a loved one or encounter a significant economic loss. It’s real and severe and something we must deal with so we do. That’s where and when we …
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