by svsauthor | Jan 28, 2024 | Uncategorized
My mind has been racing lately. I wake up in the middle of the night and mentally rework a piece of writing that I’d struggled with earlier in the day. Stories from my past, sometimes ones I didn’t even know I’d remembered, come to me from out of the blue. I...
by svsauthor | Jan 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
Manyu has beautiful salt and pepper hair. It is raven black highlighted with individual strands of white. She keeps it barely shoulder-length and carries a classic look that cannot be replicated in a hair salon. Last week she dyed it all black. Dying hair is an annual...
by svsauthor | Jan 14, 2024 | Uncategorized
As a young man, I might have had a face people trusted. Often I was told I needed to smile more, but smiles, at least fake ones, reveal an underlying dishonesty more than a face that might be described as emotionless. This fact often puts politicians in a bind. When...
by svsauthor | Jan 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
I can’t remember who the author was, but I once read a book jacket bio that read, “And he has no dogs or cats.” I checked out the book from the library for that reason alone, and now wish I’d gone to a bookstore to buy it. That kind of sarcasm...
by svsauthor | Dec 31, 2023 | Uncategorized
Creating a new button on my website should take about five minutes. It would be a five minute task, except for the fact that I always forget how to do it. Each year between Christmas and New Years I need to add a new button to archive the upcoming year’s blog...
by svsauthor | Dec 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
Two weeks ago I wrote that La Crosse had received snow that would last until March. I called that one wrong. The snow is gone, and today is nearly fifty degrees Fahrenheit. The La Crosse River Marsh refuses to settle into winter. One day the ice looks thick enough to...
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