My Minnesota

Tomorrow night brings a full moon. Our Minnesota Weatherguide tells us that the Ojibwe call it the Great Spirits moon and the Lakota the ...

Thanks to the time of year and the weather patterns, I've begun rereading a couple of books of poetry that involve Ted Kooser and Jim Ha...

As we've noted numerous times elsewhere on this blog, we were raised in New England, mostly in and around Boston, Massachusetts. Among t...

If you're from the MidWest or the North Country, you may well ask "what's World Oceans Day got to do with us?" The answer...

I'm remembering my father, who served in the Air Force in both WWII and the Korean "Police Action." Also thinking of my uncle ...

This is day three of National Poetry Month. The third of thirty things we can do to celebrate is "Sign up for Teach This Poem , a weekl...

For the past several years, I've been struggling with the question(s) of form(s) in poetry and genre in literature. I've been doing ...

Very early this morning I walked my dog through fog and temperatures reminiscent of this time of year on the southern Massachusetts coast,...

As much as I enjoyed the Rural Arts and Culture Summit, it was nice to get home yesterday, to be greeted by the woodcock which seems to ha...

Back when I was eleven or twelve years old, a noteworthy hurricane hit Massachusetts where I then lived. I'm sure the effects of hurri...

Have you seen the coverage of the "rebranding of Minnesota?" There's this blog posting  and a Star Tribune article , each of...

I love the look of old barns like the one in the top photo. I also know that, if neglected long enough, a barn will collapse and end up li...

© harrington Hi! Thanks for slushing by. What do you think the world is coming to? Terrorist bombings in Boston; explosions in Texas; ...

Welcome. Come in. Where I am at the moment, it's neither snowing nor sleeting nor freezing nor raining nor some combination of those...

© harrington Yesterday I skimmed through an interesting post in Planetizen that led me to the full Scientific American post on geodes...

© harrington I'm reading one of my Christmas presents, For the Health of the Land , some of Aldo Leopold 's previously unpubli...