Category Archives: Books and reading

Evening Beckons

Posted on October 14, 2016 by

Seen as I was leaving work last night. This is the changing quality of light that people talk about in northern climes. At least some of what they mean. The light slants from a lower place in the sky as … Continue reading →

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Little Free Library (#9) – Makenna’s Tribute

Posted on July 14, 2016 by

The Little Free Library movement is huge in Milwaukee. In some neighborhoods you can’t drive more than a few blocks without seeing one of the little book boxes in a front yard. These boxes can be wildly individualistic, which is … Continue reading →

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Little Free Library (#8) – Matching!

Posted on July 12, 2016 by

Often Little Free Library boxes match the house they sit in front of. I’ve done a post on one of these before (Little Free Library #2, here) but I didn’t think to include a photo of the house. For today’s … Continue reading →

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Little Free Library (#7) – Milwaukee Fire Department, Engine House 32

Posted on June 9, 2016 by

Found in the neighborhood just northeast of 35th and Vliet in Milwaukee. Saving lives in more ways than one 🙂  

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Fallen Petals in Wet Grass

Posted on May 10, 2016 by

When the spring rains come, the litter of magnolia petals and crab apple blossoms somehow reminds me of the Ezra Pound poem, “In a Station of the Metro”: The apparition of these faces in the crowd: Petals on a wet, … Continue reading →

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Norman Rockwell’s The Bookworm Redux

Posted on February 19, 2016 by

There’s a special gallery two doors away from my office in the Grohmann Museum that houses a collection of paintings by 19th-century German painter, Carl Spitzweg. On the wall outside that gallery is a painting by American painter Norman Rockwell, … Continue reading →

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Little Free Library #6 – London Calling

Posted on October 12, 2015 by

This mini-library replica of a British red telephone box . . . . . . is at its best during the night, when it is lit up by a focused spotlight. Its red glow can be seen from a few … Continue reading →

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