by svsauthor | Aug 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
I understand why people might be indifferent to professional sports. Obsessive fans, cocky athletes, privileged team owners, and government-funded stadiums all combine to create a pastime that a reasonable person might find unappealing. Having said that, I think that...
by svsauthor | Aug 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
Wednesday evening I attended a guided tour of La Crosse’s Myrick Park Arboretum. By most arboretum standards our tree museum is unimpressive, but if a variety of tree species with identification plaques at the base of each tree makes for an arboretum, then the...
by svsauthor | Aug 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
For me, summers in La Crosse should mean fishing from my canoe once a week and biking every other day. So far this year, I have gone fishing twice, and I’ve been on my bike a half dozen times. The infrequency of these favorite outdoor pursuits has nothing to do with...
by svsauthor | Jul 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
Video clips of masked ICE marauders rounding up people in city parks got me thinking about my wife’s status in the United States. Manyu is a naturalized citizen. Her place in the US should be as secure as my own, but I am no longer sure that it is. I remember well...
by svsauthor | Jul 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
Last week Clare called me about a lost car key. It was really lost, not I-can’t-remember-where-I-put-it lost. She’d misplaced her backup key years ago, so now she was left with no key at all. Clare handled the problem on her own, but she first called me to ask whether...
by svsauthor | Jul 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
About once a month I have a long telephone conversation with my friend Ed. When I spoke with him last week, he’d just returned from three months in Spain and France. One of the first things that he did upon returning home was to book airline tickets for his next trip,...
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