Our Town, Revisited Act One – Daily Life I first met Bob and Tia in a most unexpected way. It was the early 1990s, and I was struggling with persistent back pain. Searching for relief, I booked a session with a massage therapist named Jodie Curro. As fate would have it, Jodie was married [...]
Here's a simple recipe that you can make in a half hour that presents well for dinner parties without you spending the whole time in the kitchen. At the end is a smoky and spicy variant for tuna or lamb. Ingredients MAKES TWO SERVINGS For the yogurt sauce: 1 cup plain [...]
That's me at far right outside "Moon" cabin in Gitchee Gumey five years before this story. What is Yacht Rock? “Sailing, takes me away to where I've always heard it could be. Just a dream and the wind to carry me, soon I will be free...” Christopher Cross, “Sailing” For me Camp [...]
My real last name is Kotrodimos. I'm Greek. My father changed our name to "Konnor" around the time he started practicing law thinking that our name was too difficult to pronounce and to avoid some of the ethnic bias against immigrants at the time. My father helped a lot of Greeks immigrate to [...]
June 12th is Loving Day. The day commemorates a monumental US Supreme Court case with an interracial couple at its center. In 1958, two residents of Virginia, a black woman and a white man were married in the District of Columbia. The couple returned home to Virginia shortly thereafter. [...]
This is a recipe I extrapolated after having the dish in a restaurant. I used my best guesses and a bit of research to try to be as faithful as possible to the one I had. The name of this dish “Tagine” comes from the Arabic word for “frying pan.” The actual item [...]
The trees are full and green The garden lush and sweet The warm sun belies October To truth I must surrender The hours, they are numbered The last days of summer […]
It turns out that Wauwatosa means firefly. The Hochunck Indians who settled the land saw fit to name this place on the river for the almost magical insects that glow and fly in the thick, languid summer air. Recently I was driving toward the Sun Prairie home and a [...]
Here we are A place we’ve been before Those nights apart Left me wanting more […]
The Evolution of Personalization It’s a predictable pattern—the concomitant rise of technology and user expectation. When Zappo’s revolutionized how we find shoes online, consumers expected it everywhere. When mobile devices delivered the mobile web, consumers demanded mobile experiences that work. Now, just as the technologies that enable enhanced targeting have rapidly evolved, so too [...]
