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Category: Friday Round-Up
However Old You Are, It’s Good to Own a Pitchfork Friday Round-Up
Seventy-seven is cool but it’s got nothing on seventy-eight. Tomorrow’s my birthday. I don’t dread it or rue it or pretend it’s not happening. I’m oddly proud of being an old person and feel that, in many ways, I am just coming into my… Continue Reading “However Old You Are, It’s Good to Own a Pitchfork Friday Round-Up”
Oh, So Talented, Aren’t We All?
My talent is catastrophizing. For example, every time I go over the Hoan Bridge in Milwaukee, I envision my car flipping over the guard rail into the water and knowing that the power windows probably wouldn’t work under water. I watched a video once… Continue Reading “Oh, So Talented, Aren’t We All?”
Fat Cat, Kettle Corn, Back to School Girl Friday Round-Up
When I went to pick up my student ID, the twenty-something in charge barely blinked an eye. “Have you had a Panther ID before?” he asked. “Not for a while,” I answered, ‘not for a while’ being forty years ago. He was just checking… Continue Reading “Fat Cat, Kettle Corn, Back to School Girl Friday Round-Up”
Kick the Can Friday Round-Up
Writing a story where I know the main character pretty well but have no idea what she’s going to do is a weird sort of playing but I like it. Yesterday, I pulled a character from a murder mystery my husband and I wrote… Continue Reading “Kick the Can Friday Round-Up”
The Lime Leaves are Fresh Friday Round-Up
You have to approach this time in our country in layers. Or maybe concentric circles is a better image. There’s you. Then your family – given or acquired. And then the community and last, it has to be last I think or you’ll go… Continue Reading “The Lime Leaves are Fresh Friday Round-Up”
Scratchy Sweater Dress Friday Round-Up
I had a turtleneck, long sleeve, midi-length sweater dress that made me feel like a million bucks until the end of the day when I went screaming into my house to get it off. This was quite some time ago but I just saw… Continue Reading “Scratchy Sweater Dress Friday Round-Up”
Sideways Glances Friday Round-Up
I can only look at the news out of the side of my eye. Looking at it straight on is like staring at the sun during an eclipse. I don’t even have to specify what I can’t bear. It’s basically all of it. And… Continue Reading “Sideways Glances Friday Round-Up”
We Are Who We Pretend to Be Friday Round-Up
I’m going to channel this look of Durant’s at the No Kings demonstration tomorrow. Time worn, tested, determined, able, forward facing. Yesterday, I made a Facebook video to encourage folks to attend our local (Milwaukee) No Kings demo. I like when I am able… Continue Reading “We Are Who We Pretend to Be Friday Round-Up”
A Million Dollars or Peppers or Moments on the Porch Friday Round-Up
That’s easy. I’d give it to the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) so their lawyers could show up in every instance where somebody has been wrongly detained and unnecessarily roughed up by ICE, and they could push back against the erosion of First (free… Continue Reading “A Million Dollars or Peppers or Moments on the Porch Friday Round-Up”
Work on that Aim Friday Round-Up
The shape of my day is largely defined by whether the cat has missed the mark. He didn’t this morning, but he did yesterday, and it had an undeniable chilling effect on my happiness. I’ve dealt with a lot of human and animal excrement… Continue Reading “Work on that Aim Friday Round-Up”
Snow Door | wisconsinacademy.org
Listen to Jan read her essay “Billy” presented on WUWM’s Lake Effect
Jan’s essay “At the Breakfast Bar” on WUWM Lake Effect
Jan’s essay “The Parish Hall,” on WUWM Lake Effect
“Fury Cannot Touch Me,” Modern Love, NYT, 9/29/11
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