I was outside yesterday doing the daily yard cleaning (two large dogs) when I looked up and saw the sun reflecting off the porcelain insulators carrying the power lines overhead. By the time I ran inside for my camera . . . and changed the batteries 😦 . . . the porcelain had lost a bit of its glossy sheen. But still, it’s a nice photo, so I wanted to share it.
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I am a college professor (PhD in English, concentration rhetoric) at Milwaukee School of Engineering, where I teach film and media studies, political science, digital society, digital storytelling, writing for digital media, and communication. While fragments of my teaching and scholarship interests may quite naturally meander over to my blog, this space is intended to function as a creative outlet, not as part of my professional practice. Opinions are my own, etc.
Katherine Wikoff 
I’d never noticed insulators before. They are pretty, aren’t they? When I first moved here about seven years ago, a neighbor told me her husband collects insulators. I guess they aren’t all the same. And I’ll bet most people, if they saw one on display in someone’s home, would have no idea what they were. Interesting hobby.
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I like to know the names of things because it makes me feel more connected to what I see/experience of the world around me. I had to look really hard to find out what those “white things on the power lines” were called. That’s why I love the Internet! Made me feel ridiculously smart when I figured it out 🙂
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