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Monthly Archives: February 2011

North Coast crossing

AS THE WORLD NOW KNOWS, WISCONSIN PROTESTS AS HARD AS THEY PARTY. We bore witness last weekend. While I’d like to say we went east to defend the collective bargaining rights of Wisconsin state workers, we actually went to ski. And also to party! We expressed our solidarity with protesters with raised fists through car [...]

Sketches of San Juan

LIKE MANY MIGRATORY SPECIES OF THE UPPER MIDWEST, we left home last month for a stay in the Caribbean Archipelago. After leaping snow berms in sandals and light jackets to make our plane, we soon alighted in a 10×10-block finger of land known as Old San Juan, one of the oldest colonial settlements in the [...]