My home office sign

by Tom Wilkowske on January 13, 2010

ShhhWork

Nina captured this moment one afternoon in September — me at work in my home office. I shushed the kids, then told them I was almost done with my phone call. (Appropo Star Trek quote: “Cap’n, I got ta have tharty minits!”) I love how she’s got that Egyptian profile/face forward thing going on — either that, or my head was turning so fast, it looked like my nose was where my ear belonged. I take it down when the work day is done.

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Clouds over Lake Superior after the storm

by Tom Wilkowske on January 1, 2010

sunrise-dec-29

I meant to take a picture every day after “Red sky in morning …” but to be honest, the weather was too lousy! And I was busy doing Christmas Eve, and hosting some friends over for  Christmas Day, and getting ready for foot surgery, so I have even more excuses. Still I managed to snap a few images on the 29th, a day before I went under the knife to have some bone spurs removed from my big toe joints. The morning sun was just  pushing through the edge of a bank of low-hanging lake clouds.

Now, post-surgery, I’ve figured out how to use my laptop laying completely on my back, with my head barely propped up. I think it’s the most ergnomically smart way I’ve ever computed. I may never go back to sitting up at the computer again! That may be the narcotics talking.

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Red sky in morning ….

December 23, 2009

…. sailors take warning, is how the old adage goes.  Is there really a weather phenom that tints sunrises extra-red before big storms? Wondering whether that will hold true as the meteorologists debate how hard this Christmas storm is going to hit in the Duluth area.
Minnesota Public Radio chief meteorologist Paul Huttner says the storm [...]

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Warming Lake Superior brings stronger winds of change

November 19, 2009

The Discovery Channel’s website has a great story about how global warming is affecting Lake Superior’s regional climate and ecology.
It’s from a study published this week  in Nature Geoscience.
University of Minnesota’s Large Lakes Observatory, located here in Duluth, is one of the principal research partners.

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Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald still looms

November 10, 2009

(Editor’s note: This article was first published on Nov. 10, 2000 in the Duluth, Minn., News-Tribune. The references are appropriate for that date.)
Lake Superior took Amy Kalmon’s father from her 25 years ago today. It took Cheryl Rozman’s, too. Kalmon was 15, Rozman was 28.
A teenager, a young mother. Two daughters, two separate lives. One [...]

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Rain and Leaves by Clairity

November 9, 2009

Rain and Leaves, originally uploaded by *clairity*.

Discovered that Clairity on flickr is none other than Sharon Mollerus of Duluth, a self-described “doting grandmother” who has an amazing photo gallery with lots of North Shore and Duluth images.

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Duluth Lift Bridge in Fog

October 29, 2009

Duluth Lift Bridge in Fog, originally uploaded by *clairity*.

This photo is by *clairity* on Flickr. Anyone know who that is? Nice work.

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Pupil teaches the master not to play with fire

September 18, 2009

Now, it seems so silly. I look at that little dish of peppers and they’re starting to dry and pucker, looking more like cayenne peppers every day.Why did I do that to myself? Why?
I know my peppers fairly well. We have Mark Miller’s “The Great Chili Poster” hanging on our wall — both of them, [...]

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Preserving food grounded our Sept. 11

September 11, 2009

It was the fourth day of school in  Duluth, Minnesota.
Sophie had walked to her first-grade class at Grant Elementary School, just blocks above our East Hillside home, and I was driving Jane to her job as an instructional designer for United Healthcare, at a 1,000-employee campus just off Rice Lake Road.
On the way, I saw [...]

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Duluth educator calms Obama speech hysteria

September 9, 2009

A Duluth educator offered a clear, calm voice this week amid all the well-stoked hysteria over President Obama addressing the nation’s schoolchildren this week.
Dr. John Haire, head of Duluth’s Harbor City International School, explained why his school was making time for students to watch the address. Here’s an excerpt:
To equivocate in our decision to [...]

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