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Been There, Done That

From city kid to city manager, a bio in pictures

WET STUFF -- RED STUFF -- MED STUFF: 2023

PCCS

Founded This Eco-School With Vicky, Miriam, Evelyn & Ellen

Exit Interview

Thank you, Davenport

Farewell, Bulldogs

bad art & wierdo ideas

a beach slang tune

flat roofs & weirdo ideas

240 W. Mill Street

Siftings

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Mar

IDLH

The Chief asks a question as we pass in the yard on his way to the house. I take the question to be rhetorical in nature but, just to be sure, I give him my best “I dunno” look. Not a great look, for a quite excellent question– how was there fire on both floors? There’s a longer answer above...

Feb

Ink

I don’t hunt. I don’t have a pickup truck. I don’t have a mustache. I don’t have a tattoo. Or several. How I am a Wisconsin firefighter is anyone’s guess. Some of my failures to conform are philosophical. Some practical. Some merely convenience. Because I was put on Team Mammal,...

Jan

Slippery Slopes

Of all the icy slopes I have ascended, this one hardly registers as a slope. No crampons or ice axe needed. No pickets, no jumar, no rope. This is just a driveway. But it is a long, sloping driveway at night, with ice and snow, running down to a house on the lake. A man in the lake house...