Ocean

Measuring accomplishment. Lake Mendota is slowly succumbing to ice. Look here at the progression of it: How do you mark progress? Beauty? In...

Up before dawn to finish work on an exam. Yawn. Tired. Revive with streaming sunlight. Loving every bit of sun rays in the morning. I flip t...

Mine is intensifying. Though it’s really not just about the holidays. As for so many, I am swamped by demands at work and at home and none a...

The Sunday before the Sunday before. It’s classic. The family comes tomorrow. I am scrambling to get the condo up to snuff. I scrub every su...

All day long, Ed and I are lost in computer work. I have a stack of projects that would benefit from his help and we plod through these more...

Ahhh, birches! Estonia, right? No, I’m back in Madison (you can tell by the snow). Where the natural world is as close as the next block or ...

Was I appearing displeased with the weather? No, after the brief showers of the first day, the weather has been easy. Until my last day here...

Well, if you can’t take the girl to the village, bring the village to her, right? In the afternoon I set out for Estonia’s “Ethnographical” ...

Estonia’s “red white and blue” is “blue black and white.” They are powerful words here – symbols of nationhood and patriotism. I’m not sure ...