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Tag: Lake Superior
Yesterday at Whitefish Point
You never know the last time you’re going to do something. I used to think about that, about the last time my son would put his hand on my shoulder when we were walking. And then he didn’t do it anymore but I don’t… Continue Reading “Yesterday at Whitefish Point”
Speak
I walked a good long way on the beach today. Part of the way to where I was going I saw this big beautiful dead bird. He looked as if he had just landed, like he has flown low over Lake Superior aiming for… Continue Reading “Speak”
The Snow Melting Pot
This is an update to yesterday’s post that told the story of how our furnace went out, causing our pipes to freeze and then burst, resulting in two inches of water in our house on Lake Superior. We have heat but no water. Well, we… Continue Reading “The Snow Melting Pot”
Perfectly Flawed
A long time ago, we bought a ramshackle beach house on Lake Superior and two years later it burned down. One minute we had a house and the next it was gone. That happens to people, though, and it’s a survivable thing. We lost… Continue Reading “Perfectly Flawed”
Our Sea
Vast in all ways __________________ #7 in a series of 10 for Developing Your Eye I, Blogging U’s Photography Course, responding to the prompt: big
Drunk Talk
There’s no way I’m going into my 68th year with unpainted toes. So I find the old bottle of deep, serious red polish from the medicine cabinet at our house on Lake Superior, a place where we have one of everything that is absolutely… Continue Reading “Drunk Talk”
Royal
That blue is long gone. That blue that made me put my book down to take a picture. Not of the water or the sky. But of the blue. It was such a blue I thought it might not happen again in my lifetime.… Continue Reading “Royal”
Minnie Looking at Lake Superior
She looks through the railing, her nose twitches at something floating by that we don’t see or maybe fish swimming yards offshore. The fog disappears and the sun comes out and for minutes it is warm outside and bright and then the fog gathers… Continue Reading “Minnie Looking at Lake Superior”
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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