My Minnesota

FIRST: We WIN!     Then: we FIGHT! Of the Democrats (Senior and Junior) that have called for President Biden to step down, or aside, as a ca...

For a holiday weekend that represents the unofficial beginning of summer, we're “enjoying” another gray, showery, cloudy, dreary day. At...

Yesterday evening we were visited by four whitetail deer in a far corner of the field behind the house. This morning the dogs and I did inde...

 Eleven years ago today, our front yard looked like the picture below. The same spot today is under 6∓ inches of snow. On the brighter side,...

This may be the week the ice finally melts off the driveway and the bare ground returns. That means I won’t have to change shoes every time ...

 A couple of days ago I again started reading Thoreau’s Walking . (I prefer his content to his writing style.) While sitting in the dentist’...

One of my all time favorite authors, Gene Hill , has a great quotation that goes “Whoever said you can't buy Happiness forgot little pup...

 We've been fussing and fuming about the recent extended snow showers. They are anomalous for this time of year. We're close to and ...

This is not, as I remember, the kind of Minnesota I moved to almost half a century ago. In fact, this is a Minnesota to which I wouldn't...

Last year, or the one before, I read Elizabeth Rush's Rising, Dispatches from the New American Shore . Today's warnings and evacuati...

In the midst of rereading Margaret Wheatley's Who Do We Choose To Be? , once again I've encountered numbers that my brain refuses to...

In the fields behind the house, purple love grass is ripening. Soon the seed heads will be getting blown across the fields, scattering seeds...

I hope this finds you and those around you healthy and virus-free. The next few months will prove to be challenging, at best. They will also...

As I hope you already know, today is International Women's Day, a day on which, more than others, we pay attention to "Celebrate wo...

One of the blogs listed on the right-hand side of this page is based at The Center for Humans and Nature . The Center also puts out a journa...