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Bridging the cheese curd divide.
A partnership blog post, written in partnership, not with a cheese-making establishment (sadly), but with two bloggers! Part 1: Shelly I used to really respect Midwest Mark. Note the past tense. I came to blogging honestly. I started when I quit my job and sold all my belongings, then got married to a guy who…
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Porky Puff > Potato Pancake.
After three years, I’d say we’ve got this Wisconsin State Fair thing down pat. We were rookies during our first visit in 2024, and it showed. For starters, we went on a Saturday…and ran into a traffic jam so long, it took us an hour to travel the last mile. And then, we wandered around…
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No Hollywood ending, no love story.
Aww…my baby turns 15 today. Publishing No Time for Kings was the culmination of years’ worth of effort. I have roughly 1,000 printed pages from four other manuscripts shoved into cardboard boxes gathering dust, and enough rejection letters to wallpaper a small room. I don’t look at these early attempts as failures, though; they served…
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Mashed potatoes could be the new froyo.
My dad loves to read the newspaper. He’ll spend, no joke, three hours every single day, reading it from cover to cover. An actual physical newspaper, too. Not a digital online version. We’re talking ink smudges on his fingers, paper cuts if he flips to the Sports section too quickly, the whole nine yards. It’s…
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Indoor plumbing and moon landings? Pshaw!
Guys, Christmas came early this year! I might hate melons, but I most certainly do not hate SPAM, as anyone who has read me long enough knows. So, when Kwik Trip announced a new breakfast sandwich starring my beloved canned meat, I couldn’t wait to try it. Last Wednesday, on my way to work, I…
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Honeydew? Honey, don’t.
Hey, remember when I shared my opinion that summer is overrated recently? I knew there might be some backlash, but holy cow, a few folks came at me with guns a-blazin’, like that was the most insane thing they’d ever heard. Yeah. That was fun. I wasn’t upset by these comments. We writer types are…
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