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#44 of 92: The Potato Salad’s Gone Bad and Other Miseries
What’s a time you ignored your gut — and paid for it? View all responses You can’t answer a question like this without hurting somebody’s feelings. Unless you’re talking about eating the potato salad that you know is bad because it was left out… Continue Reading “#44 of 92: The Potato Salad’s Gone Bad and Other Miseries”
#41 of 92: Life’s Lessons Lost on the Young
What life lesson did you learn too late? View all responses Play-Doh will stick to wood, and you’ll have to scrape it off with your fingernail. You asked.
#39 of 92: Appliance Love is Real
What is one thing you can’t live without? View all responses Dirty dishes filed Perfectly symmetrical Humming kitchen nights
#34 of 92: Nei to Klippfisk and Scratchy Sweaters
If you had a free round-trip ticket to anywhere, where would you go? View all responses Nowhere. I’d give the ticket to someone else. The deal is if you can’t do something – because of obligations or logistics or whatever – after a while,… Continue Reading “#34 of 92: Nei to Klippfisk and Scratchy Sweaters”
#32 of 92: Taking a Break from Angst to Talk Crypto
What are your thoughts about cryptocurrency? View all responses It’s some kind of magical money that I associate with nefarious motives. And that’s because for part of last year I worked with AARP Wisconsin to get legislation passed to regulate crypto kiosks in gas… Continue Reading “#32 of 92: Taking a Break from Angst to Talk Crypto”
#31 of 92: With Age Comes Some Really Great Laughs
If you had to sum up your life philosophy in one sentence, what would it be? View all responses YOU’LL KNOW IT’S THEM. THEY’LL BE THE ONES LAUGHING. An offhand comment my husband made about my older daughter and me has weirdly become my… Continue Reading “#31 of 92: With Age Comes Some Really Great Laughs”
#25 of 92: Acing Death & Dying
Do you set personal goals for yourself? View all responses What’s the meaning of life if you don’t regularly set and not meet goals? We are supposed to be striving here not just passing the time of day! Are your crops all brought in?… Continue Reading “#25 of 92: Acing Death & Dying”
#18 of 92: Who Needs Advice? Not Me.
If you could go back in time and give your younger self advice, what would it be? View all responses Which younger self? The last week younger self or the fiftyish younger self or the chick who dusted the ants off a peony so… Continue Reading “#18 of 92: Who Needs Advice? Not Me.”
#12 of 92: Heat-Dried SEO
What are your strategies for SEO? View all responses It is mid-October and very hot. This has interrupted my years’ long preoccupation with SEO. (sarcasm) [For normal people who have never thought about SEO and don’t want to, here’s the AI explanation: SEO (Search… Continue Reading “#12 of 92: Heat-Dried SEO”
#7 of 92: Put the Poison Down! Let’s be Friends
If aliens arrived tomorrow, what’s the first thing you’d ask them? View all responses If they’d like a cup of coffee. This presupposes they’re not aiming some kind of weapon at me and that they have the means to actually drink coffee. I once… Continue Reading “#7 of 92: Put the Poison Down! Let’s be Friends”
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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