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August 28, 2018

Pages in an Island Book

Kurt Grahnke on Washington Island (photo by Eliza Grahnke)

WASHINGTON ISLAND, Wi.–The best books contain discovery on every page. Over the summer we had a book signing for my Camper Book at  Fair Isle Books on Washington Island. We drove my  blue camper van off the Washington Ferry (built in 1989 in Sturgeon Bay) on to the island of 35 square miles.

There are no bridges on this island, but there are timeless connections.

The cozy book store was one of our first stops. I always like to make sure my books are in the store. Book store owner Deb Wayman had a note for me.  It was from Gwen Gotsch, an Oak [...]

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March 18, 2014

One From The Heart

 

 

When the spirit has been dragging like a comb in the hair of Gene Simmons, you find out who your true friends are.

And I’ve been fortunate.

Really fortunate.

This updated website has all kinds of stuff. There’s categories of travel dispatches, baseball stories, things on food-ways and immediate, unfiltered musings on life passages. I’ll also be keeping my eye on breaking Chicago cultural news, issues  that are near to me like why the city ignores its musical heritage.

I wanted to share this rather blunt link with my friend and collaborator Paul Natkin of Photo Reserve, Inc., who had the misfortune to be [...]

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December 21, 2012

Bill Linden’s Life of Good Cheer

Spoon me! Courtesy of Bill Linden

December 20, 2012—–

Global warming has put a chill in the air of community. It is five days before Christmas  and we haven’t had a drop of seasonal snow in Chicago. Few strangers offer a welcoming nod. They cannot be in a dour mood from dibbing parking spots on a one-way street. But then where I work some guys don’t even look up to say hello in the halllway.

Most people have stopped sending Christmas cards—-I did get one from my parents where the shaky cursive broke my heart. It takes time to get it right. The rapid growth of technology (Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, etc.) has made our space more personal, defined and [...]

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