My Minnesota

I think I’ve finally figured out a way to spend more time appreciating, enjoying, and being grateful for what I have (instead of focusing on...

With the unusually warm weather we’ve been enjoying, I started thinking about reconnecting the outside hoses and turning on the water supply...

Our Air Quality Alert is still with us. I believe it’s the same one that was initially supposed to end last night about 7 pm. Meanwhile, cum...

Today’s snow was wet and sticky. It piled up under my footwear as I walked the dogs. It almost felt like I was walking on stilts. This kind ...

 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 ...

I know it won’t be easy, but I’m determined to put more energy every day into accomplishing something good than I do into bitching about wha...

Minnesota’s August primary election starts early voting today . In response to recent disheartening news out of Washington, D.C., it is both...

Today is Bob Dylan’s, nee Robert Zimmerman’s, 81st birthday. As far as I know, he’s one of very few Minnesotan’s to win a Nobel Prize in Lit...

 Tomorrow begins National Poetry Month for 2022. In the St. Croix Valley, much of the celebration will focus on the National Endowment for t...

This afternoon we get to enjoy some sunshine and melting before a week of well below normal temperatures sets into our North Country. We too...