Joette is a Senior Lecturer at UW-Milwaukee where she teaches advertising, public relations, and common sense. She is a writer, musician, Taoist, animal lover, and enjoys a good hike, a cold beer, and a belly laugh with friends.
May. 23, 2023
8 min read
Rats will thrive pretty much anywhere that they can find the most basic of resources. To survive, rats merely require elements at the lowest level of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: food, shelter, and water. Cities everywhere, including Milwaukee, provide an abundance of these elements.
Apr. 25, 2023
9 min read
She picked up the century-old viola, and I was treated to a private mini-concert. She warmed up by playing a series of scales, and then she broke into a classical piece, if I had to guess something Bach, with no score or written music in front of her. She just played it from memory.
Feb. 13, 2023
7 min read
You hear the word "love" on a tennis court with great regularity. Love-love. Love-15. Love-40. In tennis, love means nothing. Zero. Noda. When talking with the Paley family, who founded, own and operate Paley Tennis Center in Milwaukee, they may not say the word love much to each other, but you understand that it's always there just under the surface.
Jul. 13, 2022
8 min read
There’s a saying, “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” The same basic philosophy can be applied to the existence of ghosts: Whether you think they exist, or you think they don’t, you’re right.
Apr. 12, 2022
9 min read
Anne Reed doesn’t drink coffee. I find this out as she greets me at her front door and offers me tea with her apologies for not having the caffeinated...
Mar. 10, 2022
8 min read
As I write this article, Racine artist and painter Jerry Belland is sitting in a vitrectomy recovery chair, a contraption designed so that its occupant sits leaning forward, with their face down and parallel to the floor.
Feb. 2, 2022
6 min read
Deb Dila, researcher at UWM School for Freshwater Science and artist discusses how her world as artist and scientist have helped her explore meaning and find balance in her life.
Mar. 28, 2019
5 min read
Passed away. Passed on. Laid to rest. Crossed over. Bit the dust. Kicked the bucket. With Jesus in Heaven. On the other side. Sleeping with the fishes...
Feb. 26, 2019
5 min read
There has always been a part of me that has been a cowgirl. As a kid, I wore cowboy boots, collected a menagerie of porcelain horses, had a favorite...
Feb. 1, 2019
5 min read
I have a feral cat that has lived near or on my front porch for over 11 years.
