Family
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I tried to be a trucker. It was nothing like I expected.
Writer Keith Uhlig of Wausau often wondered if he should have taken a different career path. So when he was able to pivot professionally, he finally gave truck driving a shot.
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‘On hallowed ground’: Remembering the perfect days of deer hunting
As hunters flock to the woods for gun deer season, their days will be steeped in tradition and contemplation. For writer and forester Ron Weber, this time has always been about more than the hunt. It’s about appreciating the world and memories swirling around him.
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Father shares young daughter’s one-liners in self-made book
Milwaukee journalist Tom Kertscher feels gratitude that many years ago, he put his reporter skills to work and captured some of the things his daughter said as a child.
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This Wisconsin summer camp reunites foster kids with their biological siblings
For one week at Belong Wisconsin’s summer camp, foster children experience what it is like to be close to their biological sibling. And as funding becomes uncertain, all involved with the camp are determined to keep it going.
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Some Wisconsin adoptees can’t legally access their original birth certificate. A new bill would change that.
Advocate and adoptee Diana Higgenbottom Anagnostopoulos shared the emotional and legal obstacles that some adoptees face without access to their original birth certificate.
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Women carry a household’s mental load. Now, a Wisconsin researcher has receipts.
UW-Madison sociologist Allison Daminger’s new book tracks what she calls “cognitive labor” and the gender imbalances she found interviewing more than 80 couples.
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‘Follow Your Path’: A parent’s journey alongside his transgender daughter
Andrew Patrie is like most parents. The Eau Claire author loves his child, but acknowledges the awkward moments.
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Milwaukee mom’s grief leads her to meeting the man who killed her son
Debra Gillispie’s grief journey took her from outrage and a mission to shut down a bar, to driving across the country and back, to 20 years of leading local advocacy and reform efforts, and ultimately, to the prison that’s holding the man who killed her son.
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‘It was my dad’s idea’: Wisconsinite mountaineer reflects on inspirational father
Wisconsin native Lori Schneider is the first person with MS to complete the Seven Summits, a capstone achievement for any serious mountaineer. Schneider says the reason she got into mountaineering in the first place is her dad.
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Wisconsin author searches for meaning after the mysterious death of her brother
Kristina Amelong explores her brother’s legacy in a new memoir about family, continuing through tragedy and the mystery surrounding what happened.










