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Typing My Way to Victory
Central Michigan University, Michigan State University (2x), University of Michigan-Flint, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2x). My college education started in 1966 and ended in 1986. I just this minute realized that my trudge through higher education consumed twenty years. But the real question is what… Continue Reading “Typing My Way to Victory”
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”
Embroidering in the Well
I don’t know much about the year I was born but I know that it didn’t go well. My mother stayed in the hospital for six weeks after I was born. I was sent home to be cared for by my grandmother. There was… Continue Reading “Embroidering in the Well”
Backflip on Day 1
[Prompt: Tell us about your first day at something.] In the first minutes of the first day at my job as a secretary to the supervisor of Meridian Township in 1967, I leaned back in my swivel chair and fell over so that I… Continue Reading “Backflip on Day 1”
Iron Me a Fine Shirt
[What could you do less of?] I’m already doing less of the things I could do less of. Hanging back. Waiting. Wasting time. Second guessing. Ironing. I could only do less ironing if I took my ironing board and my steam iron and threw… Continue Reading “Iron Me a Fine Shirt”
A Row of Twenty Trumpets
[Prompt: Share five things you’re good at.) What five things am I good at? Why stop at five things? I can think of twenty things I’m good at. I’m good at… Writing things fast. Making decisions with lifelong consequences in minutes. Convincing people to… Continue Reading “A Row of Twenty Trumpets”
Saying Yes When No Would Be Easier
I’m teaching my grandson to drive. This is a new experience. We just finished either the fourth or fifth ‘lesson.’ All went well. Today, we drove a fair amount and then we went through the checklist that the driving test people ask – do… Continue Reading “Saying Yes When No Would Be Easier”
Meeting Michael Douglas
[Prompt: Who is the most famous or infamous person you have ever met?] I went to a meet and greet today to meet and greet Michael Douglas who had flown to Wisconsin from L.A. on behalf of Michael Bloomberg. The meet and greet was… Continue Reading “Meeting Michael Douglas”
A Budding Centenarian Thinks about What’s Next
I’ve been working on where I fit. This sounds like a sad thing, a hapless thing, like I suddenly got disinvited from the cool kids’ table at lunchtime. Nope. I’m still egotistical even to think I am the cool kid. (That’s a recent thing,… Continue Reading “A Budding Centenarian Thinks about What’s Next”
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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