Another Week: Number 105

by | December 29, 2024 • 12:00 am | Another Week

December 27, 2024: Seasons at River View apartment complex, Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin Another Week: Number 105 < Previous Another Week The rumbling and pounding noises I have been hearing recently returned this week on Saturday evening. They seem subterranean and...

Another Week: Number 104

by | December 22, 2024 • 12:00 am | Another Week

December 19, 2024: Footprints in the concrete pavement at the east end of Olive Street, where it meets Jerome Boulevard in Racine, Wisconsin. Another Week: Number 104 < Previous Another Week I once heard Kevin Matthews say “There’s no such thing as bad...

Another Week: Number 103

by | December 15, 2024 • 12:00 am | Another Week

December 12, 2024: Construction worker parked on Webster St. in Racine, Wisconsin at 6:11 a.m.; temperature: 2º F. Another Week: Number 103 < Previous Another Week This year is bottoming out. We’re getting just nine hours of daylight now. The coldest...

Another Week: Number 102

by | December 8, 2024 • 12:00 am | Another Week

December 7, 2024: Mitchell School in Racine, Wisconsin at dawn. Another Week: Number 102 < Previous Another Week As a man above age 50, forty percent of my waking hours are spent trimming my nails and the weird hairs that sprout from my head and body. One hundred...

Another Week: Number 101

by | December 1, 2024 • 12:00 am | Another Week

November 29, 2024: Facing west at dusk on Wisconsin Highway 195 (the former Kenosha-Racine county line Highway KR) at Highway 31. Another Week: Number 101 < Previous Another Week Sixteen years ago, in the thick of the Great Recession at the end of the George W....

Another Week: Number 100

by | November 24, 2024 • 12:00 am | Another Week

November 19, 2024: Walkway along east end of Kenosha, Wisconsin’s HarborPark on Lake Michigan. Another Week: Number 100 < Previous Another Week I feel like a specimen being tested by outside forces to see how much ridiculous disappointment I can swallow. Take...

Another Week: Number 99

by | November 17, 2024 • 12:00 am | Another Week

November 14, 2024: Deflated Christmas decorations on Olive St. in Racine, Wisconsin. Another Week: Number 99 < Previous Another Week Cold-hearted orb that rules the nightRemoves the colours from our sightRed is grey and yellow whiteBut we decide which is rightAnd...

Another Week: Number 98

by | November 10, 2024 • 12:00 am | Another Week

November 7, 2024: Dead end sign on Hansche Road in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. Another Week: Number 98 < Previous Another Week For most of my life, fall was my favorite season. Now it feels like those days are gone. The crisp air and the smell of burning leaves...

Another Week: Number 97

by | November 3, 2024 • 12:00 am | Another Week

November 2, 2024: A new Woodman’s Food Market is replacing much of Regency Mall in Racine, Wisconsin. Another Week: Number 97 < Previous Another Week These were the last seven days of Daylight Saving Time for 2024. Sunset at 5:41 will become sunset at 4:40....

Another Week: Number 96

by | October 27, 2024 • 12:00 am | Another Week

October 22, 2024: My sister Karen shaking hands with Minnesota Governor Tim Walz at Memorial Hall in Racine, Wisconsin. Another Week: Number 96 < Previous Another Week Next > Sometimes things seem set and rigid — when you know the established track, the...