Today’s LA Times has an article about a brewing backlash against the homeless in downtown Madison, WI. Years ago I wrote my senior thesis about the young people (my primary focus, anyway) that spent time in a small park just off State Street, the pedestrian thoroughfare that connects the University of Wisconsin campus to [...]

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There is something fascinating to me about the way certain things stick in one’s memory where they are pulled up to the surface by strange unrelated things.
As a freshman at UW I took an honors comparative literature class that focused on Kafka, Beckett, and Borges. It was intense, strange, and wonderful. The class [...]

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Am I the only one who thinks there’s something wrong with a world where magazines feature ads for diet drugs for dogs?  It’s bad enough that every time you turn on the TV or flip open a magazine you’re faced with a plethora of blue, purple, and red pills that you’re encouraged to ask your [...]

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