WN@TL Blog

For July 11, 2018     Hi WN@TL Fans, My personal sample size is pretty small—two kids of my own, plus about a dozen nieces and nephews I’ve known since they were born—so I will …

For July 4, 2018     Hi WN@TL Fans, This week, for the 4th of July: a hiatus, a break, a pause.  WN@TL goes dark on a day when little towns all over the country light …

For June 27, 2018 Hi WN@TL Fans, Madison is about 850 miles from the closest salt water—the Inner Harbor at Baltimore—and about 1000 miles from the warm sea water of the Gulf of Mexico.  So …

For June 20, 2018 Hi WN@TL Fans, As I mentioned two weeks ago, the story of my hometown is driven in no small part by the changing tides of energy production.  Dixon was founded in 1828 as …

For June 13, 2018       Hi WN@TL Fans, I don’t know how many trees were in the Garden of Eden, but for me the two with names — the Tree of Knowledge of Good and …

For June 6, 2018 Hi WN@TL Fans, I grew up at 118 College Avenue in Dixon, Illinois, two blocks south of Commonwealth Edison’s coal-burning electric power plant on the Rock River.   A spur of the …

For May 30, 2018 Hi WN@TL Fans, In an interview 13 years ago with one of his grandchildren, my Dad said that Saving Private Ryan was his favorite movie. The fundamental message of the movie …

For May 23, 2018 Hi WN@TL Fans, Yesterday was one of those stunner days when you learn something that bowls over your worldview, even though the news is six years old.  It was a simple …

For May 16, 2018 Hi WN@TL Fans, Consider the word “map.” What comes to your mind first: the noun or the verb?  The image or the action? ‘Map’ is just three letters of text, but …

For May 9, 2018 Hi WN@TL Fans, Thesis. Antithesis. Synthesis.  What is more electric than the dialectic? To compose by combining, Kant, Hegel, Fichte and others plucked parts from a thesis here and pulled components from an antithesis …