by Barbara Brown Lee | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
How did you choose to become a museum educator? My family wanted to take a vacation and my father took us to a dude ranch in Arizona up near Flagstaff. I was ten, and, after about one day there, I turned to my father and said, “This is where I want to come to...
by Michael Kriesel | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Kitchen necromancer, mom unburiesthe washer each week from its shallow graveof crochet magazines, Wonder Bread bagsof phone bills, coupons clipped and saved towardssome unexpired future where Point Beer doesn’t trump groceries. She even saved the washer box....
by Bruce Dethlefsen | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Bruce Dethlefsen, a retired educator and public library director living in Westfield, began his two-year term as Wisconsin Poet Laureate at the beginning of 2011. Author of two poetry chapbooks, Dethlefsen was twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize and served for years...
by Robyn Perrin | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Nano. The word rolls off the tongue as if it could be a name for a garage band or a cartoon character. Strange that it should sound so whimsical, this prefix assigned by Le Système international d’unités authorities to designate 10-9. When affixed to units of length,...
by Cathryn Cofell | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
No makeup or mirrors, nothing that reflects,no TV screens, no tinted glass, no tin.No clinging clothes or cameras,no photos or frames,no possibility of any shape, trapped.No trappings of any kind,no pedicure, no perfect pearl,no clutch of orchids.Not one thing for a...
