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View Article  Troy Gardens prairie planting
This is April 24, the Friends of Troy Gardens volunteer day. Also the first day of the Troy Gardens Community Gardens season. The cluster of people in the back are here to work on their community garden plots. The people in the foreground on either side of me are here to work on the prairie garden. They're digging up the plants from the prairie nursery that was planted last year, loading it into wheelbarrows, and hauling it across the field to the prairie garden. It's going to be stunning when it all grows in. Behind the prairie garden is a restored ...   more »
View Article  A blurry eternity
Our third day in the hospital, Ulysses's third day of life outside the womb. It seemed like we had been all three together there for a blurry eternity. Days, nights, passed through us punctuated by diaper changes, vitals checks, meal tray times, phone calls from friends and relatives from the distant World Outside.
View Article  Baby longlegs
Here is Ulysses, just a day old. (Note the umbilical cord clamp.) It will take weeks for his legs to straighten out. He was jacknifed inside me with his bottom wedged in my pelvic cavity and his feet sticking up beside his head. The pediatrician said his hips were fine; sometimes they can be misaligned by the pressure of that position. My chiropractor, Amy Anderson, checked him out later and said he was all nice and straight inside!
View Article  Three Madison Chefs
Around the world in Madison: Lao Laan-Xang, Sole e Sapori, and Nadia's
By Vesna Vuynovich Kovach
In Isthmus Annual Dining Guide, 2000

For a mid-sized city in the heart of the Midwest, Madison is lucky when it comes to dining out--and it’s not just because we have so many diverse restaurants serving dishes from all around the globe. It’s the exuberance and creativity of the people who run them. In bringing us their foods, they ...   more »