Another Week: Number 144

September 27, 2025: Highway 50 at Highway H in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin. Another Week: Number 144 < Previous Another Week I admit it: I have tried for years to use the awesome power of my thinking, visualization, and sheer will to influence the outcome of...

Another Week: Number 143

September 19, 2025: The corner of Webster St. and Drexel Ave. in Racine, Wisconsin. Another Week: Number 143 < Previous Another Week Next > This was a pretty pleasant week weatherwise — warm enough to wear shorts again and slightly sticky, but not oppressive. On...

Another Week: Number 142

September 9, 2025: Display of pumpkins and mums at Walmart in Racine, Wisconsin. Another Week: Number 142 < Previous Another Week Autumn is getting into gear. The forsythia has taken on a bruised color. Wednesday night, I slept with the windows open. Awake Thursday...

Another Week: Number 141

September 2, 2025: North end of the author’s living room. Another Week: Number 141 < Previous Another Week All summer long, while doing yard work, I’ve been tormented by a LeafFilter commercial on iTunes. In the ad, “Ron” falls off his ladder while...

Another Week: Number 140

August 29, 2025: A cicada on my backyard window screen. Another Week: Number 140 < Previous Another Week Next > One sound I have noticed more this summer is the güiro-siren of the cicadas. While last summer was supposedly our Brood XIII cicada-palooza,...

Another Week: Number 139

August 23, 2025: Mitchell School in Racine, Wisconsin after 15 months of revovation. Another Week: Number 139 < Previous Another Week There’s a wonderful feeling of peace and relief when an aggravation withdraws. Our summer of stifling humidity and choking...

Another Week: Number 138

August 15, 2025: Multi-use trail through Petrifying Springs Park in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Another Week: Number 138 < Previous Another Week You can feel everyone beginning to pack up their sunscreen and beach toys, and coax summer toward the door. It may not have been...

Another Week: Number 137

August 8, 2025: Pike River restoration at Petrifying Springs Park in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Another Week: Number 137 < Previous Another Week Life presents obstacles. We try to find workarounds. Our local atmosphere now alternates between a stifling dew point and...

Another Week: Number 136

July 31, 2025: Sunrise through Canadian wildfire smoke at Mitchell School in Racine, Wisconsin. Another Week: Number 136 < Previous Another Week Greetings from Dystopia. When we were choked by Canadian wildfire smoke two years ago, it felt like a passing plague, a...

Another Week: Number 135

July 22, 2025: Guitar-shaped monument to the 1959 Winter Dance Party at the Eagles Ballroom in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Another Week: Number 135 < Previous Another Week Next > This is the time of year when I have no idea why people live here. All through the bleak...