Wisconsin Life

Matthew McConnell and Dan Asta recently became buddies. The two met just a few months ago at BronyCon in Baltimore, the biggest My Little Pony convention in the world. After striking up a friendship there, McConnell and Asta decided to head to Milwaukee for the sixth annual Ponyville Ciderfest. Asta said the conventions bring together

Have you ever been at a wedding and caught a glimpse of your parents slow dancing? Maybe you marveled…or maybe you cringed, but I’m willing to bet you felt…something. Jan Larson shares a story about how watching her parents dance in the kitchen brought her comfort as a child, and now as a mother as

Wisconsin’s deer hunting season is underway. After the meat has been packed in the freezer, taxidermists are there to preserve that trophy buck or other animals hunters want to preserve. Often, that means mounting the heads of the harvest. Mounted antlers (Courtesy of Amanda Bestul) Amanda Bestul runs her own taxidermy business, Bestul

Winona Carufel of Lac du Flambeau navigates her cart through the St. Matthias Thrift Shop with a stuffed white horse sticking out of her brown paper grocery bag. Carufel has four daughters under age 8, and she’s filling the bag with surprises for them. Winona Carufel shops at St. Matthias' Thrift Shop. (Photo by

If you’ve taken a drive on one of Wisconsin’s iconic scenic roads, chances are you’ve noticed a bit of alphabet soup. Signs with names like BB, CV, and N flank Wisconsin’s county roads, and Shelly from Marshall wanted to know why. She asked: "Why are Wisconsin's county roads labeled with letters instead of numbers?"

Wisconsin's deer hunting season is underway with bow hunting lasting until January. Hunters plan for this time all year long, imagining the challenge of the hunt and the thrill of bagging their prey. Ron Weber dreamed of hunting for the perfect buck since he was a young boy. Decades later, that day finally came. Ron

Every author has their own way of writing — they get in the zone, channel their creativity, and then (hopefully!) words start flowing onto the page or screen. There’s a writer in Madison that does this by writing in Morse code. Author Steven Salmon shares his experience of being a professional writer with Cerebral palsy

One day, Missy Makinia was on Facebook when something caught her attention. There was a little girl in her town of Ladysmith, Wisconsin who needed a kidney. "My daughter look at me and said, ‘You know mom, you would match up with her blood type,’ Makinia said. "So, I called the hospital where she was

The connection between a grandmother and her granddaughter — and mother and daughter — is special, especially when it’s bound by braids. Writer Araceli Esparza tells us more about it in the story, “Braided Life.” == Braided Life Everyone Everywhere wears their hair differently. But not me. My braids, My braids I wear them every

Way before cell phones, there were these things called telephones. And in the early days, a telephone call required a switchboard operator to make the connection. Writer Meg Jones tells the story a group of switchboard operators whose skill and courage on the front lines helped the US win World War I. == More than