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Category Archives: Books and reading
Writing Exercise – “Protest Night”
Here’s an exercise from late October or early November. I can’t remember which member of our writing group assigned this exercise, but it’s another taken from Ursula K. Le Guin’s Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea … Continue reading
How to write a bestseller #@#%$!!!!!
Who the BLEEP knew?!?!?!? While buying paper towels and other staples at Target last night, I decided to swing past the books and maybe treat myself if anything caught my eye. Well, these did catch my eye, LOL. But they … Continue reading
Posted in Books and reading
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And the sun came out . . .
Very windy rain showers hit Milwaukee around mid-day today. I took this series of photos from my office window after returning from a couple of meetings around three o’clock. For some reason the title of a favorite picture book of … Continue reading
LIttle Free Library – There’s a book!
Actually there are THREE books! The Little Free Library Book (2015) tells the official story of the Little Free Library movement and contains a forward by Todd Bol, the founder of Little Free Libraries, who built the first one in … Continue reading
The individual vs. society – Joseph Campbell, Gandhi, and JFK weigh in
I’m cleaning out my office today, throwing out old student papers and old lecture notes from courses I no longer teach. One of the files I came across was from a one-off class on mythology that I taught in the … Continue reading
A nice midweek break
Last night after work I met my friend, Karen, for dinner on the east side, followed by an author event at Boswell Books, featuring a talk and booksigning by Austin Kleon. Kleon has written three books about how to build … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books and reading, Creativity, Milwaukee
Tagged Austin Kleon, Boswell Books, David Allen, Done, Fiserv Forum, Getting Things, Milwaukee, Pabst Brewing Company
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Visiting Sim – Part One
This past Saturday I went to a lecture/tour at the Milwaukee Public Library marking 90 years since Simba the lion came to live at the Milwaukee Public Museum, which then shared half of the building with the Central Library downtown. … Continue reading
If you love ruins and abandoned places
Then you might want to read this review of a new book that sounds so “me” it jumped straight to the top of my to-read list. I love Phaidon, publisher of fabulous picture books for grownups. Like DK, my other fave … Continue reading
All that is gold does not glitter
Today is Tolkien Reading Day, a fact I discovered randomly while going through Twitter for a work project. For those of you/us who haven’t read The Lord of the Rings recently (or paid exceptionally close attention to the calendar of … Continue reading
Posted in Books and reading
Tagged #TolkienReadingDay, J.R.R. Tolkien, March 25, The Lord of the Rings
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Little Free Library #10 – Samson & Delilah Salon
Stopped by Colectivo at 68th and Wells Streets today to pick up a latte and some of their fabulous Hot Cocoa Mix for home. (Truly, their cocoa is the BEST! And they don’t pay me for this endorsement😄) I was … Continue reading
