Ocean

My old law school buddies (fn: they are not old; their buddyhood status is old) are reuniting in Florida. It was such a good idea! A week-en...

I am, all day today and tomorrow, at a conference. I know… some way of starting spring break! But, there is an intellectual nostalgia in thi...

Wednesday . I enter Monona Terrace Convention Center and look around (where are the banners? why no trumpets?). In front, a row of tables, w...

I am brimming with thoughts of mold. I can say no more. I will write a lengthy expose tomorrow. In the meantime, I’m providing a photo of th...

The door latch was lifted today. The thermometer hovered, wavered and then shot up to an astonishing 39 F. Buoyed by yesterday’s success at ...

Waiting for the bus this morning, I got too close to the curb and was rewarded with giant mud spray up and down my pants. After work, I got ...

A few thoughts I had early this morning: ...change is, in the end, a good thing. ...one difference between humans and ants is that ants appe...

Maybe it’s like the movie, Groundhog Day. D'you remember it? You wake up and it’s February 2nd. Again and again. And again. People tell ...

The day moves slowly. I have law applications to review. I concentrate for a while, then put the stack down. I need an Ocean post, I tell ...

It struck me that it had been a while since I went by way of the bike path – the one that takes me past the lake to campus. Since the first ...

I walked up State Street to get an afternoon cappuccino and I thought about how people who are preoccupied (obsessed?) with March weather ar...

If you love sleeping and if you love waiting, then you have life sewn up, because the vast majority of your living hours are spent on one or...

All this talk of change! Will the real leader for change please stand up? Oh, and the weather? It’s about to change! Time as well. We’ll tra...

I know what you’re thinking. Madison hasn’t a personality. Rip out the Capitol and the campus and you have anytown, USA, with the requisite ...

I need a diversion. Can’t always write about the dreariness of a never-ending season. Let me pull out two recent comments and use them as th...

Why did we get an extra day in February? I would have liked an extra day in the month of May – unquestionably the most hope-filled month. Ad...

It is an uncomplicated family. With just two sets of grandparents. No separations, abandonments, divorces leading to multiple sets, or addit...

A student comes into my office to chat. He looks over my shoulder – you have over 9000 messages in your Inbox? I shrug. Sometimes life gets ...

I’ve been thinking a lot about accomplishments today (and lack thereof). Some people give years to this kind of pensiveness, but I gave it o...