MaryAlice Musings and More

  Well, itis being quite a trip.  Yes, this is Bubbles,  we are both fine  and I haven't really been able to think about what I might like to write about so I have just been going along for the ride and enjoying the view.   I can hardly remember what I last blogged about.  We were in the Driftless Land of south western Wisconsin.  We are still in Wisconsin, but we are in Madison, Wisconsin, also known as the MadCity, Cheeseheads and Badgers.  More people live here than in Portland, Bangor, Augusta and lots of little towns, over 282,000 and I don't know how many of the 164,000 students that go to the University of Wisconsin are included in that number.  MaryAlice has both an undergraduate and a graduate degree from UW, she is an alumni, and a long time ago   Dick Wagner (it is so sad that he died in 2021) and MaryAlice were the first co-chairs of the UW-Madison GLBTQ Alumni Association Group.  She has been thinking about D...

  It is the third day of the New Year, and we are still nestled into the Dome Home in Vernon County Wisconsin.  I was so happy to just be watching and taking in all that was happening as MaryAlice visited many of places and saw many of the people that she knew as a young woman. I love my perch from the purse or backpack, this morning as I am looking out the big triangle window to the east there is "sparkle snow" tiny little snowflakes that are just lit up in the sunlight.  It is not going to make the ground any more covered with snow as the sparkling flecks seem to disappear even before they hit the ground.   We haven't taken many pictures but here is one of me hanging out in the window at Maybe Lately's where we had lunch yesterday. We were in Viroqua, WI (that is the town where Sasha was born) and we had all the Bader Women and Peg together for a really good visit that traversed many decades and appreciation that we were all together.  As you can see, I h...