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Don't even think of rechecking this blog until very very late on Saturday. The Arizona desert, where I will be spending the next three d...

I never thought that it was permissible to throw in supporting documents with tax returns, but now I see that I missed countless opportuniti...

What is it about my sense of fair play that makes me live with the institution of the infiltrator-spy, but find repugnant the spy who secret...

To the reader who just volunteered to dig out her pink flamingo and lend it to me in order to appease my nascent desire to upstage the 4 nei...

A tip for those who are staying in town, celebrating Valentine’s Day, and want to appear loving and generous to their partner or friend on t...

I drove up the street thinking good thoughts: the snow, Owen Woods Nature Conservation Park on the left, a bike path leading into a quiet ne...

Today the Cap Times mentioned ( here ) that the NYT hinted at the possibility of having Doyle added to the democratic ticket. Governor Doyle...

The drive from my home to my office takes about 15 minutes. 90% of the time I have NPR going: it’s soothing in the morning (no one should st...

I have to say this, because I am hearing from some readers who do not know this about my writing: English is not my first language, Polish i...

Tonya writes in her blog that by withholding “favorite movie rental” information (post, February 10), I am perhaps engaged in the flirtatiou...

My seminar ended late (we actually finished early, but it felt late – one has to be precise in one’s words), everything about this day ended...

On January 29, I posted a blog about not trusting Fed Ex to pick up my grant application in a timely way (is anyone except me sick of this s...

Okay. The time is now. I have been asked in class, I have been asked in the hallways (of life), I have been asked repeatedly: do I think the...

Yesterday we got a really friendly call from a Clark supporter asking for our vote this coming Tuesday. Now what if that one call (and the f...

This, very buried in the paper today (buried, I suppose, because if you have stocks or caches of gold, you don’t want to give anyone on this...

Though in a previous blog I suggested (to myself) that I review readers’ comments on Sunday (that was because it was a particularly slow mov...

Later...(see post below) If I wrote about sledding now, it would be as if I sledded just to write. It was, though, a perfect night to wor...

A colleague in Madison once told me not to make any important decisions in February. It’s like your car, which, at this time of the year, ma...

A lot. Jonathan Alter writes in this week’s Newsweek: Kerry is Brie and crackers on a rugged picnic. Edwards is a slice of American on a h...

Does Wisconsin need this much attention? As of today, we have a proposed constitutional amendment in Wisconsin proclaiming marriage to be a ...