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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.

Good Day Sunshine

Posted on September 18, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

Taken with my iPhone while stopped at a traffic light on my way to work earlier this week. Thank you, Apple, for making it so easy to capture images in places and at times that would have been impossible otherwise. … Continue reading →

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Come into my parlour . . .

Posted on September 11, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

When I let the dogs out last week, I noticed the shimmery green fly in a web on our back deck. I bent around the corner to see if the spider was anywhere around. Oh, yeah. There it was. The … Continue reading →

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Foreground (Old), Middle Ground (Older), Background (New)

Posted on September 2, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

Something about the shapes of these rooflines in Downtown Milwaukee caught my attention while I walked between meetings this afternoon. One building sort of rolls away into the next, hopscotching among eras of architectural history as our gaze is pulled successively … Continue reading →

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Just a fluke, but still lots of fun

Posted on September 1, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

This is what my stats looked like shortly after 11:00 last night. (Yep, I use the old stats page. The new one doesn’t give you this snapshot of “context.”) This morning I’m back on track to my usual numbers, lucky to … Continue reading →

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How Dion survived the day the music died

Posted on August 29, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

In the home section of yesterday’s Wall Street Journal—or, more accurately, the “Mansion” section (it is, after all, The Wall Street Journal 🙂 )—singer Dion DiMucci talks about growing up in the Bronx, with parents who often fought over the $36 … Continue reading →

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Better Than Brownies (#tbt)

Posted on August 27, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

In the “First Course” column of yesterday’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel food section, editor Nancy Stohs ran a story about a brownie recipe from “Miss Petey” that was so popular with readers that it was published several times over the years, its first … Continue reading →

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The Magic of Light (on Porcelain Insulators)

Posted on August 26, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

As every photographer knows, the key to capturing beautiful images is light. Even more important, also as every photographer knows, is having your camera ready at all times. This is the second time I’ve noticed a really stunning display of light … Continue reading →

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Old Basement Stairway

Posted on August 25, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff
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Morning Sunlight: Wall Opposite a Window

Posted on August 24, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff
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The American West or What I did on summer vacation (Take 2)

Posted on August 23, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

A wonderful post by my friend Sally, in which she visits an old-time saloon in a small Montana town, left behind to vanish almost completely when the railroad abandoned its tracks, to report a cow on the road separated by … Continue reading →

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