My Minnesota

It's been so cold for so long even the dogs have cabin fever. They clamor to go out but as soon as we're outside in -10℉ to -20℉ tem...

We  have definitely entered the darker half of the year here in the northern hemisphere. Daylight savings time ended yesterday. The results ...

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...

Yesterday the Better Half and I drove past one of the local sugarbushes. She noticed they had their sap collection tubing strung. A little f...

I’m finding it increasingly difficult to really give a damn about national affairs. There seems to be no effective way to eliminate Republic...

We dodged several bullets yesterday, almost literally. There were thunderstorms all around us and we were caught, briefly, in a torrential d...

Today’s title borrows from Wes Jackson . Today is International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples . Yesterday, the voters in Ohio ch...

I haven't read the 92(?) page US Department of Justice report nor much of the coverage of this morning’s announcement of its findings:  ...

 As I was rereading the first chapter of Joy Harjo’s Catching the Light this morning, my day was brightened by  this paragraph: The traditi...

Lately I’ve been pondering a lot of semi-related questions that leave me more than mildly perplexed. In part they’re due to some reading I’v...

 It’s the eve of Valentine’s Day and the Ides of February  [scroll down on the linked page]. Tomorrow is supposed to be rainy [½ an inch or ...

The amaryllis bulbs, which were tucked away in a cool dark place at Christmas last year, are now repotted and showing signs of life. Maybe w...

Santa and the reindeer should have no problems in our neck of the woods. There’s several inches of snow on the roofs and the ground and temp...

Several years ago, one of the local bears came onto the deck and bent hell out of the bird feeder holder in the picture, or one very much li...