(This cemetery has a lot of deteriorated marble lambs.) Last night I woke to a noise, a single gigantic peal of thunder. I’m used to […]
Rice Lake: muskrat love.
This morning, I walked down to the coffee shop, past the lake. It’s not a big lake, but it’s lovely, and at this time of […]
Rice Lake, WI.
I drove up to my mom’s house the day after Stop Day, when I was on two graduate committees. Five hundred miles north, spring is […]
And on and on! Plus binge reading.
Last week randomized things in so many ways — the San Francisco trip needed flights rescheduled; the move needed confirmations of this and that, students […]
San Franciso and grownuppery.
After my afternoon class tomorrow, I am on my way to San Francisco, where I will be on the advisory board for a educational nonprofit. […]
Recent reading.
I have been reading a lot lately, in an effort to sleep better at night. Recently, in brief: The Blue Door Theatre books, by Pamela […]
Nothing runs like a…jackalope, I guess.
I was at the John Deere Museum in Cedar Falls last weekend, and it was a surprising delight. My grandfather was the publisher of five […]
Easter Sunday.
My dad was a Lutheran minister. Despite this, my family wasn’t particularly religious: we attended church but not always willingly, Mom grumbling about the cloud […]