Looking to expand beyond the local Borders? Tired of clicking through the Amazon jungle and waiting for your books to be shipped from a faraway land? Visit these independent Milwaukee bookstores. Not only will you find staff with specialized knowledge, you’ll also be supporting the local Wisconsin economy. Milwaukee is known for being a blue-collar, ...
You call your cat and she won’t come. Well, maybe she’s just being her old stubborn self. You walk up behind her, stroke her, and she startles. It may take a while to realize that your cat’s uncharacteristic behavior may not be a result of a quirky personality but actually deafness. Deafness can come on ...
Nostalgia, as defined by the American Heritage Dictionary, is “a bittersweet longing for the things, persons, or situations of the past.” If that is the case, then George Saunders’s stories in CivilWarLand in Bad Decline tend to gravitate more toward the bitter than the sweet. The present, as depicted in this collection of stories, whether ...
Ever since the Egyptians discovered, admired and cultivated the many marvelous attributes of cats-about 4000 years ago-humans have made cats an important part of their culture. Some societies have worshipped them; others have demonized them. In some societies, it was a crime to kill a cat even by accident; in others, cats were considered a ...
Your cat seems to love just being with you. She doesn’t seem to even need other cats. In fact, she gets irritated, even aggressive, when another feline roams too close to her home. And yet, it doesn’t quite make sense. Cats are extremely social with each other when they have been brought up together. So ...
