Way back in 89, my Navy Reserve unit in Madison held its picnic/damage control olympics. Damage Control Olympics consisted of team competitions simulating emergency repairs that might have to be done aboard a Navy ship at sea. Such as shoring up s...

Partially true story: Every summer, my city hosts a "Riverfest". A combination music festival / carnival in Riverside Park along the shores of The Rock River in S. Wisconsin. One year I was working at the food court - (sorta kinda) - as I h...

Although this story is fiction, I based it on an actual local TV news report. Names are changed from the station's actual anchors. Jim Kilcher had mixed feelings getting ready for that evening's 6:00 newscast. He was about to start a 2-week vac...

Having only read stories in the newspaper about and seeing pictures in papers or on TV, in 2009 I thought I'd get a first-hand glimpse of one in person. Later in '09 at the Wisconsin American Legion state convention in Milwaukee, I was given brochu...

It was 1973. I'm 48 now, you do the math. It was a "backyard picnic" at a bar in Afton WI. One of the attractions which caught my eye was kids lining up to get into one of two (Yes, TWO) dunk tanks. Most had on shorts and/or T-shirts over th...

While my main interest is wet clothes, to a lesser degree I like muddy girls too. Near where I live, is a mud volleyball tournament to benefit epilepsy. Held in Kelly-Myers Park in Roscoe , Illinois (just miles from the Illinois/Wisconsin statelin...

In Southern Wisconsin is a small town of Shopiere. Situated just a few miles north of the Illinois / Wisconsin border just a short drive off Interstates 90 / 43. While home to only a few hundred residents, the weekend before the 4th of July bring...