Opinion

A very grateful and GRAND “thank you” goes out to all of those helpful community members who made our recent Sauk Prairie Pioneer Day trip a great experience for our fourth grade students and families.

Pool party

Our friends recently gave us a pool. 

“You can have it for free!” they said. 

I didn’t realize it at the time, but a free above-ground pool is like a free space shuttle from IKEA. There are going to be some hidden monetary costs, and a psychological toll as well. 

Lightyear Review

Off-Beat Adventure

I remember the 1990s as a normal time. It was, for lack of a better term, my time. The era in which I discovered the world and began to question all there was to see and hear. In hindsight, however, I’m starting to wonder if it was actually a surreal thought experiment. For example, every hit song on the radio was simply a list. 

In 1851, Wisconsin adopted “Forward” as the official state motto.  In 2022, we face the clear choice of voting for candidates who embody, or fail to embody, that motto.  Senator Ron Johnson seeks to move our state and nation backwards while Governor Tony Evers continues to push Wisconsin forward.  While Johnson flagrantly spread COVID misinforma

A House of One’s Own

To the Editor,

S’mores Magazine

Being on the cover of Forbes magazine is a horrendous life goal. The only way to get there is to have a lot of money and having a lot of money is the easiest way to be miserable, vapid and depressed. Yet Forbes is name dropped in pop songs all the time as a vital waypoint of success. 

Modern story set in Madison