Yooper Diaries

We’d like to present a new column to Marquette Magazine. This column is not meant to give you advice on your marriage, your health, or your pets;. although, you may find some bits of wisdom from life within it’s text. It’s not a news or current events column; although, you may discover comedies, tragedies, and similarities that connect you with humans across the world. What is it then? A conversation between two people with a common past sharing insights and inspirations gleaned from their daily lives. We invite you to become a voyeur and listen in to Yooper Diaries…

 Dawn Adamson

Vortical Flow

Vortical Flow

Latest creative writing piece by Dawn Adamson Need some fresh perspective on the frigid cold of winter this year that will warm up your face with a smile? Read the latest creative writing piece by Dawn Adamson,  This winter has been brutal on the heart, the body, and the soul.  Apparently, we are in some […]

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Finding Center

Finding Center

Winter Reflections from Tom Vajda… Center. This is the time of year when it is easy to lose the center and wobble out of control in one direction or another.  We wake up when it is dark, go to work when it is dark and when we return home, it is dark again.  We walk […]

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Compassion Meter

Compassion Meter

I have a compassion meter.  This meter has become extremely sensitive and fine-tuned.  It happened while being a mom and working as a nurse in oncology.  As an oncology nurse and someone who now does hospice and home healthcare when I can, I developed a Zero-tolerance meter.  I don’t understand how people can be mean.  […]

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Newtons Laws

Newtons Laws

My father was a physicist, chemist and a mathematician.  He taught at MSHS. Loved it. I grew up with his students coming to the house and phrases such as force equals mass times acceleration.  A body at rest tends to stay at rest.  For every action there is an equal an opposite reaction. To be […]

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Dog Walks

Dog Walks

by Dawn Adamson & Tom Vajda for MarquettemMagazine.com Dawn: My mom gave me this book.  It was titled 100 Things to Make You Happy.  Number four was get a dog.  I have a faithful companion as a result named Lola.  But she responds to blueberry, because she loves them, Bloobs, … several nicknames.  Lola and […]