Category Archives: August

August 24, 2025 I recently learned (or rather, finally got it through my head after several people told me) that something I was doing at work in the name of a helpful gesture was coming across as meddling or creepy to my coworkers. I’m not trying to use loaded language here: their position on theContinue reading “Blind Spots”

August 10, 2025 While others may go to church of a Sunday morning, I go to a certain back porch of a certain store that’s very dear to me. Maybe you know it. They serve coffee. Being there is a rite in itself: greet the cashier; grab my favorite mug from its peg (actually, it’sContinue reading “Balance”

“Sauk Prairie Remembered” painting by Victor Bakhtin August 6, 2023 My attempt to type up my old journals has long fallen to the wayside. But I still occasionally dust them off to see what I was doing and thinking on a certain date in past years. This might not warrant a blog post, except thatContinue reading “Ten Years Later”

August 17, 2022 I’ve had a busy summer, so it wasn’t too surprising last week when I was rushing to get somewhere and sustained another silly injury. I imagined no window where indeed there was one, and came away with a cartoonish – though very real – concussion. My prescription from the urgent care doctorContinue reading “Heads Up”

August 24, 2020 We in the Driftless seem to be mired in the final heat blast of the summer. Of course, I also said that two heat blasts ago. On my walk this muggy evening, I reflected on why I didn’t keep up my blog over the summer. I can’t claim that I was busy,Continue reading “A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to August”