Author Archives: Katherine Wikoff

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About Katherine Wikoff

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.

Curlicue

Posted on January 2, 2023 by Katherine Wikoff

I tossed my phone charger aside on the couch after I unplugged it the other day, and this is what I saw😄 Kind of striking, that curl of white against the two jumbled, dark red blankets. So I used the … Continue reading →

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500 tabs and counting down (#499 “The Tim Ferriss Show” transcripts)

Posted on December 3, 2022 by Katherine Wikoff

Author and podcaster Tim Ferriss has amazing guests, and he is always so super prepared as an interviewer that the conversations he has with guests are really substantial. However, I don’t usually like listening to podcasts because doing so is … Continue reading →

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Nature vs. Human — Two very different types of lines

Posted on November 29, 2022 by Katherine Wikoff

No judgment here as far as one type of line being better than the other. They’re just very different. And each beautiful in its own way😀 Would you like new posts delivered to your inbox? To subscribe, click here.

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Schoonmaker Reef

Posted on November 23, 2022 by Katherine Wikoff

This is what a Silurian coral reef looks like, 425 million years later. I parked in the back/side lot at my local grocery store this morning while shopping for Thanksgiving. (The main lot gets very crowded on the day before … Continue reading →

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The Birds?

Posted on November 17, 2022 by Katherine Wikoff

There’s a big flock of birds—of starlings, actually. And I guess they’re not called a “flock” of starlings but a “murmuration” of starlings, which I learned from my Twitter friend Keith Freeburn, a photographer in Wales, last time I wrote … Continue reading →

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When a picture IS a thousand words

Posted on November 10, 2022 by Katherine Wikoff

I subscribe to a lot of newsletters. Lots of topics, lots of industries, lots of different treatments. I’m just interested in lots of things 😄 One thing I subscribe to is “e news” from the Newberry Library in Chicago. The … Continue reading →

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What a difference different light can make!

Posted on November 9, 2022 by Katherine Wikoff

This post is a follow up to yesterday’s. I made another coffee run down the hill to Starbucks this morning. I think it was earlier in the day, so the sun was at a different place in the sky and … Continue reading →

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Blue sky, Grohmann Museum, and Juneau Village Towers

Posted on November 8, 2022 by Katherine Wikoff

Took this photo yesterday as I walked back up the hill to my office in the Grohmann Museum (the building with the statues) from the Red Arrow Starbucks. The Juneau Village Towers (the tall building and the shorter, shadowed one … Continue reading →

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“When You’re Good to Mama” — Heard on a head-clearing coffee run to Starbucks

Posted on November 7, 2022 by Katherine Wikoff

I have so much work to do! But as I finished one project and faced the daunting prospect of beginning the next one, I forced myself out of the door because I knew it would be good for me to … Continue reading →

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Market Street, evening

Posted on November 2, 2022 by Katherine Wikoff

Taken after work tonight on Market Street, the one-block street that runs along behind the Campus Center at Milwaukee School of Engineering. The bright early evening sun was low in the sky, casting shadows down into the canyon created by … Continue reading →

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