My Minnesota

There’s an old piece of advice that goes something like “If you can’t say something good, don’t say anything at all.” There will be no polit...

Thanks to an invitation from the Son-In-Law and Granddaughter, I went fishing yesterday. My (not quite 4 year old) Granddaughter outfished m...

If one considers just some of the events of the past week or two: an attempted assassination of a former present who's campaigning to r...

Locally, Spring begins at 10:06 pm today. I’m pretending that doesn’t really count because it’s such a small percentage of the day so late i...

 Happy Leap Day! about to take a leap!! Photo by J. Harrington Now that we’ve taken care of that, let’s move on. Tomorrow is March 1. Mar...

Hello, again(?), from the cloud-covered, snow-showered, North Country. You’ve no doubt seen the news that last year was the hottest on recor...

There’s a summer thunderstorm size puddle in the driveway. The wet spot behind the house is showing open water that suggests our moderate dr...

Effective this morning, we can expect longer, sometimes brighter, days for the next six months. Then it will take several more months before...

Some folks consider tomorrow to be midwinter because it’s halfway between the autumn and spring equinoxes. Others count it as the first day ...

For the past couple of days I’ve been enjoying my seasonal job as a volunteer Christmas cookie taste tester elf. So far I haven’t had to put...

Yesterday afternoon, the three-year-old Granddaughter did her very first visit to Santa. Reports are, and photos confirm, it went well. This...

We’ve been snow showered on, again. I expect the snow on the ground to be gone by week’s end, at which time folks should begin fretting abou...

If there’s a name for the shade between gray and white, that’s what this afternoon’s sky is. No sun, no blue, flat wall-to-wall cloud cover ...

It seems as though, once upon a time or so, I read that, if a society wants less of something, they should tax it. If there’s any truth to s...

Some years ago I wrote a poem that a friend of ours, Krista Detor, was subsequently kind enough to include in her book, Flat Earth Diary Not...

We need the rain, but thunder and lightning at about 2 am made SiSi, my dog, anxious, so she decided to awaken me to provide reassurance. Na...