My Minnesota

The world is full of good, or at least better, news, but we won't find it in main stream media's "if it bleeds, it leads" ...

The Better Half and I spent much of the afternoon listening to a wise and interesting white man, Kent Nerburn, talk about the wisdom of Nati...

One of the folx down the road is a tRUMP supporter. In fact, there’s many of them in the county in which we live. The one I’m writing about ...

I remember reading, some years ago, about an old lady who claimed "I don't vote. It just encourages them.” While her attitude is ce...

Please find me in contempt of the Roberts’ SCOTUS. Also, dismayed by POTUS performance at the recent “debate.” Disgusted that our political ...

SCOTUS recently announced that it’s legitimate for cities to fine and incarcerate homeless people who have nowhere to sleep. It appears the ...

At least we’re not in a tent somewhere camping. Another rainy day in Minnesota is doing wonders for the plants and mosquitos but not so much...

Back in the days when I was in school learning Latin, dei in that language translated into “of god” in English. I suspect it’s coincidental ...

There’s lots of open water showing on local lakes and ponds. The Minnesota legislature is considering a bill to reimburse counties for “ice ...

The trash is collected and waiting to get picked up tomorrow. Regenerated whole wheat sourdough flour is rising to get baked tomorrow. Earli...

This morning I discovered an encouraging resource at Wikipedia on the  Rights of Nature . I was poking around following up on yesterday’s po...

Yesterday the high was over 50℉. Today there are snowflakes in the air. We’ve reached a point at which the weather makes as much sense as an...

Our phone company (Frontier) is also our dsl internet provider that never attains broadband speeds. Fortunately, we also have cell phones. W...

When the Daughter Person was in college, the Better Half and I would stop on occasion at a coffee shop know as the Ginko. It’s been quite a ...

The wind is up again. The driveway I had mostly cleared of fallen leaves, isn’t. Congress may keep funding the government a month or two at ...