September 24th, 2024

Today the second reading from John Muir's book The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, written one year before his death in 1914. This gives us delightful insight into life more than 150 years ago traveling to America from Scotland on a rolling "bluff bowed boat" and...

Ep 4. Point of View

In the fourth episode of Jackie On:, Jackie explores narrative point of view in books and which ones are the best. She discusses first, second, and three different types of third person perspective, sprinkled with examples aplenty. Sources: Eco, Umberto. 1994. Six...

Episode One: Setting Up Camp

In this episode we explore both the philosophical underpinnings and the minutiae of the YIHS All-School camping trip.  Our guests include a camping trip organizer, a parent chaperone, and two actual, live student specimens.

September 19th, 2024

Wisconfluence is a series of four poems created for the MidWay Atlas, a seven-state Midwest artist project in 2022. WATER MEMORY is the contribution of Wisconsin Poet Laureate Laureate Kimberly Blaeser.