My Minnesota

The snow is melting!!! It will take a few days to get gone. Fortunately, we’re in for a string of 40+℉ all week. Can you tell that I’m not o...

I have a loaf of sourdough in the oven. The dough was much tackier (sticky) than I anticipated. Once I had shaped the boule and put it in th...

Today is International Women’s Day. By a fortuitous circumstance, there is a significant overlap between today’s celebration and the partici...

 I first read Joy Harjo’s An American Sunrise in 2019. By April of this year I’ll have reread it because it’s the NEA Big Read in the St. C...

Once again the people, the marriage, and the house, have survived the hanging of the outside Christmas lights. This year some gratuitous yar...

Once again the temperature has reached 90℉ and, today, kept climbing. We have more of this in store for the next several days. That makes it...

Today we followed through on our plan to take a drive to Franconia and see what the St. Croix river is up to. Actually, in reality, the phra...

We live near the southern end of Minnesota's Eighth Congressional District. According to the 2017 Census of Agriculture , there were 10,...

An overnight refreeze made the driveway treacherous walking this morning. We (SiSi and I) navigated the slipping and sliding successfully, a...

Your mileage may vary, but I'm pretty sure (and the Better Half is positive) I spend too much time and energy these days getting (and st...

Sun is shining; temperature's in the mid 30's; every so often a load of snow explodes off of an oak branch in the woods behind the h...

This morning the perfect word to describe Minnesota's November weather magically appeared on the computer screen. The word in question ...

Goldenrod blooms have arrived in more and more places. Might we enjoy a golden autumn? Art Reach St. Croix is helping to make it so with the...