by svsauthor | Apr 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
I did not participate in any of the Hands Off demonstrations two weekends ago. I was glad that the events were happening. I was especially pleased that hundreds of people in my own community of La Crosse lined one of the busiest streets in town with signs of protest....
by svsauthor | Apr 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
When I was a graduate student at the University of Minnesota, I took three statistics courses, even though I needed only two to fulfill my degree requirements. I certainly did not take the additional course because I liked statistics or did well in it. I took the...
by svsauthor | Mar 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
I am thinking about switching gyms when my current membership expires. For the past five years I’ve been going to the recreation center on the UW-La Crosse campus. I like everything about the place, except for the fact that its operating hours coincide with the...
by svsauthor | Mar 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
For the past two weeks I’ve been walking Jack along the river in Riverside Park. Every day there are people fishing from the riverboat wharf. Although I never saw anyone catch a fish, just watching them cast their lines fueled an itch. I checked the 10-day forecast...
by svsauthor | Mar 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
Five times in the last week I told myself that I should keep some kind of phenology. This realization is an annual event, and it always happens a week or two before the first day of spring. It is when the change of seasons becomes obvious and I wonder whether spring...
by svsauthor | Mar 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
My current writing project is a series of essays about life as a middle class Wisconsin dad raising his daughter alongside a first generation Asian American mom. I am two years into the project, but only recently have I been sending draft chapters to my biracial...
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