TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

Apologies to the owner of this image, because I saved it in 2007 without noting the source.  This is obviously not a map of all highways, bu...

Herewith some passages from " Less is Enough " - an excerpt in Harper's Magazine from the foreword to an upcoming republicati...

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Found while going through some family archives today.  I sent this to my aunt and uncle when I was 8 years old.  She kept it for 60+ years, ...

A tip of the hat to my cousin Meridee in Oregon, who noticed this passage written by our grandfather Knute Olaus Finseth in a personal diary...

Reposted from 2017 because I've been distracted from blogging for the past couple weeks. Cartoon from the archives of The New Yorke...

My father's career was as a traveling salesman, driving five states selling electrical equipment to local utilities.  So when our family...

I first noticed the rodent activity last week (image above) at the place where the driveway meets the garage, so I replaced the gravel in th...

Found the above on Facebook but lost the source.  Below is a thematically related screencap from the movie Interstellar in which Michael Ca...

About 25 years ago when we arrived in Wisconsin, this wooded area behind the house was wall-to-wall buckthorn and honeysuckle.  I spent two ...

Several years ago while visiting Olbrich Botanical Gardens here in Madison, we saw several unfamiliar mid-sized plants that were hosting a ...

Many years ago I used return address labels from the National Wildlife Federation and other nature- and medicine-based charities.  Then I st...

Photo taken in the front yard of our post-wartime (1946) government housing in Arlington, Virginia.  The address was 3422 A South Utah, whic...

When I was two years old I fell ill while my family was visiting relatives in the small town of Ada, MN (west of Leech Lake and Itasca, nea...

I've been busy this past week trying to trim down my ThingsToDo list, so I've not been blogging.  But there's always time to doo...

The Madison (Wisconsin) public library system is outstanding.  I have been a user (and supporter) since arriving in town over 25 years ago. ...

When I started TYWKIWDBI in 2007, the first post indicated that the purpose was "to compile for the amusement of my friends an eclecti...

Fifty-plus years ago a then-young English- and American Literature major walked out of a college bookstore with this hardcover copy of Co...

The week between Christmas and New Years may be a festive period, but the garbage bin still needs to be wheeled out to the roadside.  We...

There has been a boatload of analysis, commentary, criticism, and speculation about the effects the new tariffs may or may not be having on ...