Ocean

Walking home, I pass several trucks in close proximity to each other. I am mulling this one over: how limited is the marketplace? If there w...

I am sitting at an outside table at Borders, inhaling, exhaling. Breath in, breath out. Ahhhh…Only one more class to teach this summer, the ...

Until my summer teaching is done with, I will always feel like it’s me, racing against the clock to put up a post each day here, on Ocean . ...

People’s relationship to Sunday is a complicated one. You hate it. You love it. You dread Monday. You dread your life. You feel like you did...

I could have posted a break for today. I could have. And I admit it, I was tempted. But then I remembered this morning’s market and in its m...

A tall, older, much older guy comes over to where I am standing. Dance? I hesitate. I haven’t done swing since high school in Poland. Su...

I had a full day. You cannot possibly expect me to explain it all in a post written five minutes before midnight. I'll say this much: I ...

But I love Mr. B ! He has seen me through tough times! I was young when he came into my life – barely forty. I have raced down streets and b...

I myself do not know and maybe that is a good thing. Tomorrow. I'll write more tomorrow. Right now, I am barely sitting up. And the eye...

where am I? what am I doing? Valid question. One that I often ask myself. Late in the evening I let myself be educated on the issue of bikes...

Do you want to try geocaching? Geo-cashing? Geocaching. I’m not sure… Does it cost money? Do you make money? It’s like a treasure hunt: ...

There are some things that are beyond comprehension to those who do not live in Madison. For example, that you can bike out of the city an...

You could put on a CD at home, or you could plug yourself up with white strings dangling from your ears, or you could zip along in a car wit...

It’s been so hot that anyone on campus wearing more than the bare minimum looked odd. Of course, some looked equally interesting wearing the...

Doesn’t it sound awesome to say that your child is a quarter century old (today)? …and I remember when she was just 24… You’ve done everythi...

I have always wanted to go down the Kickapoo River . I did not say those words. I don’t know much about the Kickapoo River. There isn’t an...