My Minnesota

It's Memorial Day Weekend. The remembrance boards for my father and father-in-law are hung. Today is also Bob Dylan's 85th birthday....

Winter is approaching, a time for slowing down and storytelling. For some of us that also means more reading, although I suspect the Better ...

Stone Walls do not a Prison make,  Nor Iron bars a Cage; school? prison? other? Photo by J. Harrington Unless the Minnesota legislature l...

As some of you may have noticed, I’ve long been a fan of Donella (Dana) Meadows. She is the author of, among many things, one of my favorite...

I’ve been struggling about what to post today. Cloudy weather, noxious headlines almost everywhere, disinformation and misinformation battli...

Let’s see: past the Summer solstice; temperatures again exceeding 90℉; thunderstorms in the forecast for the evening hours; seems like Summe...

Yesterday I discovered a bird’s nest built on top of the motion-activated lights on the south corner of our garage. If there are eggs or hat...

Today was our first hailstorm of the season, although not the first thunderstorm. Yesterday we discovered some marsh marigolds in bloom. Gol...

Cleaning the gutters today was complicated because the gunk was frozen in some places. The bird bath was also frozen although, until late ye...

Have you noticed that lots of organizations and individuals seem to think that keeping us in a constant state of crisis avoidance is to thei...

Today’s posting is short and not so sweet. I’m finding it more and more difficult to reconcile a couple of key concepts supposedly underlyin...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently released the latest in their series of reports on its assessment of climate change . ...

It's been awhile since I posted a full-scale rant here. In the interest of full disclosure, I'm thoroughly fed up with the eliminati...