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Category: Travel
Wait
This was the view last night out of our kitchen window. The sun was setting over Lake Superior and the high dunes of the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. The sunset was stunning, unusually vivid and massive, taking up the whole sky. So we took… Continue Reading “Wait”
Farm Girl Passing
I love it that cows keep eating even in the rain. They don’t even look up. Rain is meaningless to them. This raises some questions. Are all cows born stoic, impervious to wet? Or did each learn that no one will come if they… Continue Reading “Farm Girl Passing”
Good Morning, OB
To the left of the stairs leading up to the pier at Ocean Beach in San Diego, there is an overstuffed couch. A couple of guys with heavy blond dreadlocks are sitting on the couch and smoking while others in various types of homeless… Continue Reading “Good Morning, OB”
Nostalgia for Canned Goods
When I was a kid, we took weeks’ long trips out West in a black ’49 Ford, the three of us kids sitting in the back seat, me in the middle most of the time to keep my sister and brother from hitting each… Continue Reading “Nostalgia for Canned Goods”
Lunch at Brownie’s Cafe
“How’s your omelet?” “Good,” he answered. “Unusual, because there’s cheese inside and on top, too.” But it wasn’t gooey, drenched in cheese, the omelet was dry with brown edges like the cook wanted to make sure everything was cooked hard. It was how I… Continue Reading “Lunch at Brownie’s Cafe”
Why Not Friday Round-Up
Why, Arizona can be a question or a place depending on whether you use a comma. The first time we came through “town” I saw the official sign for Why that included when it was established and how many people live there. So the… Continue Reading “Why Not Friday Round-Up”
Ambition
What a good trip gives me, oddly, is ambition. And to feel ambitious is wonderful. I love the potential of ambition, the hopefulness of it, the sense that there are things still to be accomplished, the belief that I could do so many things… Continue Reading “Ambition”
99 New: Fooled Us
In the last episodes, you can see it coming but only if you know how it turned out with Anthony Bourdain ending his unique, envied life by himself in a hotel room while the rest of the world thought he was on top of… Continue Reading “99 New: Fooled Us”
Rowing
Today I watched a couple walking down the street near Walmart. She was pushing a baby in an umbrella stroller and trying to make her little girl – maybe 3 or 4 years old – hold on to the side of the stroller which… Continue Reading “Rowing”
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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