by Peggy Williams | Mar 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
Last night I had the opportunity to attend a production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, or What You Will, produced by the Strollers Theatre company which performs in the Bartell Theatre here in Madison, Wisconsin (thank you, Project Famous, for the complementary...
by Peggy Williams | Dec 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
I got a kick out of the advertisements this week for the TNT show The Librarians, featuring young librarians as super heroes. While not as dramatic and absent the explosions, real life librarians are often truly the super heroes of our society. Case in...
by Peggy Williams | Jun 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
Ben Perreth is an incredibly amazing young man. At age seven he survived a brain hemmorage, as chronicled by his mother Katherine Perreth in the must-read book, Making Lemonade with Ben: The Audacity to Cope. That singular event launched him and his family...
by Peggy Williams | Jun 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
Earlier this spring I had the opportunity to meet an incredible woman, Katherine Perreth, and her even more incredible son Ben, at a writers conference. I can’t begin to describe what happened to Ben in just a few paragraphs, except to say that at age seven he had a...
by Peggy Williams | May 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
Whoohoo! We made it into the dictionary—the Miriam Webster Dictionary to be specific. Who are we? We are Da Yoopers! Natives and expats of the U.P., Michigan’s glorious Upper Peninsula. It turns out the Urban Dictionary has recognized us since 2005. “Yooper is...
by Peggy Williams | Apr 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
I remember where I was when I first saw the “Breaking News” on my iPhone: there had been a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. I was sitting in an elementary school classroom with a cadre of teachers—we were there to learn new...