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Winter in the Neighborhood
“Now is the winter of our discontent/ made glorious summer by this sun of York…” – first line of Shakespeare’s play Richard III The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck Why is winter associated...
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Amusements
It’s bitter cold and sunny outside today. A crisp, bright world, intensely interesting. Here are some things that have captured my attention: frost on my bedroom window I doctored these shots a bit,...
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27 years ago today – My Greatest Adventure began
I crossed a threshold. My life was completely altered, impacted, and enhanced by a single event: I gave birth. What that has taught me about myself, from biology to personal philosophy, and about the...
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Muck and Muddle
I hate hormones. Why anyone would want to replace estrogen once she’s finally lost it is beyond me. The moods and emotions it produces are so murky. I feel like I haven’t learned a damn thing about...
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Fascination
I’ve always believed that I have a great capacity for fascination…until a few days ago when I began to read Annie Dillard’s An American Childhood. She has it in spades, and has always had it, in a way...
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Friday Adventure
Steve & I went on a driving excursion today through rural Wisconsin. Today’s post will just be a teaser; I promise there will be more substance when I have more time. We began the day by...
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Little House in Old World Wisconsin
Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in Wisconsin in 1867, in a Little House in the Big Woods (near Pepin, WI, close to the border of Minnesota). Mary Hafford, the Irish immigrant who lived in the house...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Curves
Curves… How many internet “news” headlines associate that word with female celebrities on the red carpet? SOOOooo not my style of subject. The curve ball? The cosmic 2 by 4 upside the head? Ah, yes....
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Around the World in 24 Hours
Milwaukee can be a rather uninspiring place in the dead of winter. Not that the light, feathery, cotton candy snow that piled up overnight wasn’t beautiful. As we walked to the breakfast cafe to meet...
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Books That Change Lives
I have 4 broad cubbyholes for experience titled “Distraction”, “Entertainment”, “Useful” and “Inspirational”. This is not a system of judgment, simply an organizational game that my homo sapiens brain...
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