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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”
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”
I Haven’t Lost Everything but I Know Someone Who Did
In 1970, when my grandmother was in her mid-eighties and consigned to a nursing home because of her propensity for falling, my mother and her brother conferred about how to pay for her care. It’s not for me to say they had a variety… Continue Reading “I Haven’t Lost Everything but I Know Someone Who Did”
Introspection is So Fun
I am upstanding and I also pick up litter. I am also capable of exercising a fair amount of mind over matter, the recent incident holding up the bookcase with my bare hands a case in point. This mind over matter gambit is easier… Continue Reading “Introspection is So Fun”
Skidding Ham and Other Tales
I’ve had so many. I could write about my canned ham (which I considered deluxe at the time) skidding across the kitchen floor while my still pretty new husband, a person used to his mother’s flawless cooking, sat in the living room of our… Continue Reading “Skidding Ham and Other Tales”
What is This Thing Called Relax?
Foreign languages Crazy letters piled wild high Sorting until dark ______________________ Photo by Amador Loureiro on Unsplash
Night Catting: That’s the Answer
I pet my cat. Around 9:00 each night, the cat pads his way downstairs, stands in front of my chair, looks me in the eye and then jumps up on my lap. I’m then immobile until he leaves – maybe an hour or two… Continue Reading “Night Catting: That’s the Answer”
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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