My Minnesota

If the weather were like today’s year ‘round, I might be willing to give up four seasons. That’s how nice today is after yesterday’s downpo...

I’m not sure if I ever learned where and how the Better Half discovered Charlie Mackesy’s wonderful book,  The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and th...

Sunday is the start of October. The first week of October is Banned Books Week . As I reviewed some of the American Library Association’s ma...

The world that is being created around us is less and less one that I want to support or participate in. I won’t be presumptuous enough to c...

Locally, we passed the Summer Solstice several hours ago at 9:57 am CDT. Spring is officially over both astronomically and meteorologically....

Today is a classic autumn day in the North Country, although perhaps a little warmer than normal. The Better Half is displaying another of h...

There’s an old saying, I don’t remember where or when I first encountered it, “If you have to and you don’t want to, what do you do? Give on...

The Sunrise River pools at Carlos Avery Wildlife Management Area are more water than ice these days. A variety of waterfowl seem to believe ...

As this is being written, we're debating with ourselves whether to set some personal goals for the year or play each day, month and seas...

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

After Lewis Carroll's  Alice's Adventures In Wonderland was published, he wrote a "sequel," Through the Looking Glass . A...

While we were headed to Minneapolis this morning, a thought occurred to me that I intend to play with a little bit here over the next day or...

I know, I promised to post this yesterday but was still getting comfortable with the name. Plus, today is the first day of meteorological Wi...

[UPDATE on Tuesday, 2/12: See, it's not just us -- Verified account So far today the 3.6" since midnight sets a new daily re...

It's been more than a week since Christmas, but when the weather forecast includes a stretch like the one below, we'll take it and b...