Another Week: Number 134

by | July 20, 2025 • 12:00 am | Another Week

July 19, 2025: The Corners at Prairie Ridge shopping center in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin. Another Week: Number 134 < Previous Another Week Around here, we persevere. Sure, the air on Sunday was all milky and orange with the smoke from Canadian wildfires as it...

Another Week: Number 133

by | July 13, 2025 • 12:00 am | Another Week

July 12, 2025: Highway 50 at Highway 31 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Another Week: Number 133 < Previous Another Week We’ve reached the peak of our annual ride around the sun. The fireworks have subsided, and the days are getting slightly shorter. Inertia has...

Another Week: Number 132

by | July 6, 2025 • 12:00 am | Another Week

July 4, 2025: Fireworks viewed from my front step. Another Week: Number 132 < Previous Another Week Next > We moved into this house 20 years ago this August, and one of the main things I remember was the quiet. The living room window was open, and all you could...

Another Week: Number 131

by | June 29, 2025 • 12:00 am | Another Week

June 23, 2025: The 2200 block of Dwight St. in Racine, Wisconsin. Another Week: Number 131 < Previous Another Week I spent most of this week on “dew point house arrest” — windows closed with the air conditioner running, because it’s uncomfortably sticky...

Another Week: Number 130

by | June 22, 2025 • 12:00 am | Another Week

June 16, 2025: Chickens and paintings in a Racine, Wisconsin side yard. Another Week: Number 130 < Previous Another Week Last week, I wore a barn jacket to water my plants in the wind and cold. This week, I’m sealed in my air-conditioned house, hiding out...

Another Week: Number 129

by | June 15, 2025 • 12:00 am | Another Week

June 11, 2025: Golfers playing the 17th hole of Petrifying Springs Golf Course in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Another Week: Number 129 < Previous Another Week There’s an uneasiness and even a queasiness in the air, but everyone keeps moving forward the best they can...

Another Week: Number 128

by | June 8, 2025 • 12:00 am | Another Week

June 7, 2025: Shirley Carter (seated, left) with family members at her 90th birthday party. Another Week: Number 128 < Previous Another Week Wisconsin spent the week under smoke from Canadian wildfires. The smog ebbs and wanes. The alert level goes from yellow to...

Another Week: Number 127

by | June 1, 2025 • 12:00 am | Another Week

May 30, 2025: View of Kenosha, Wisconsin’s harbor from 6th Avenue through a side yard. Another Week: Number 127 < Previous Another Week As part of my ongoing identity project, I’m trying to simplify and minimize. I enjoy my little patch of landscape and...

Another Week: Number 126

by | May 25, 2025 • 12:00 am | Another Week

May 22, 2025: US Highway 12 at Burlington Road in Richmond, Illinois. Another Week: Number 126 < Previous Another Week Like you, I have two conflicting models informing my state of mind at all times. Part of me believes that there is some hidden, long-term purpose...

Another Week: Number 125

by | May 18, 2025 • 12:00 am | Another Week

May 12, 2025: Bridge over the Pike River at Petrifying Springs Park in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Another Week: Number 125 < Previous Another Week Life feels like a chess game sometimes. As a freelancer working from home, I don’t have the familiar nine-to-five...