Year: 2019

Hi WN@TL Fans,   The Scotsman Kenneth Grahame spoke for many a Sconnie when he pointed out that “there is nothing half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”   For some of …

For February 27, 2019 Hi WN@TL Fans,   The seal of the University of Wisconsin-Madison features an eye that is receiving (or perhaps emanating?) an arc of rays of light.    The eye is the organ …

For February 20, 2019          Hi WN@TL Fans,   A few years ago my family and I rode the ferry from Gill’s Rock to Washington Island in Door County.  It was a chilly …

For February 13, 2019            Hi WN@TL Fans,   Two hundred and ten years ago Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the same day (February 12) an ocean apart — and a …

For February 6, 2019          Hi WN@TL Fans,   Twas a memorable Wednesday last week, with the mercury down to at least 28 below zero, and with the windchill a score or more …

For January 30, 2019          Hi WN@TL Fans,   As Jack London nearly said, “Discretion is the better part of frostbite.”   With projections of -60F windchills on Wednesday, and with the approval of Robert Lemanske, …

For January 23, 2019           Hi WN@TL Fans,   Ice is civilization, as Paul Theroux  oted, but glaciers are the sculptors of the face of the Earth.  An advancing glacier is not just a …

For January 16, 2019           Hi WN@TL Fans,   From the Psalmist to the Beatitudes,  from Charles Dickens to John Steinbeck,  from the Framers to the newborn Congress, the poor have always among us, with us, of us, or just …