My Minnesota

Choice more than Chance Photo by J. Harrington The Martin Niemöller quote below is reported to be a version he used after the defeat of Na...

Welcome to Sun Day ! There's an (in)famous quote about news: "If it bleeds, it leads." Doom-scrolling social media, reading th...

As I hope you know already, April is National Poetry Month . If you’re a repeated reader of this blog, you may have noted that I’m a trout f...

More and more acorns are dropping from the bur oaks, and being joined on the ground by ripened fruits and berries. Signs of impending autumn...

These days there are more birds bumping into windows and the walkout doors to the deck. Young of the year have fledged but not yet learned t...

 I recently watched a presentation by a fisheries biologist regarding the fishing pressures and fish stock structure of a nearby trout strea...

There is a loaf (boule) of sourdough bread in the oven. The oven is both baking the bread and warming the house. I am enjoying a rare sense ...

Since at least mid-2016, I’ve been finding it more and more difficult to make sense of almost anything, and I became increasingly sure the i...

All too briefly and temporarily we have entered above 0℉ territory today. This being Minnesota, that breakthrough will promptly be followed ...

We're not going to talk about the snow that's falling while we're writing this post. Why? Because we remember reading years ago ...

 Today's posting has no relationship whatsoever with the fact that today is Primary Election Day in Minnesota. It also has absolutely no...

I have encountered, or created in my own mind, a mystery today. There are two plants in the Monarda Genus that are native to Minnesota: Mo...

Long, long ago, when I was young and sure of what I knew, I learned that "the Future" was something I needed to prepare for. I stu...