My Minnesota

We are beginning the last full week of August. The Minnesota State Fair begins in a few days. Summer of 2021 is effectively behind US. Schoo...

If you’ve been following the news recently, you may have noticed the consequences of the lack of an effective transition plan for Afghanista...

At dawn, the fields surrounding our house were frost coated and more beautiful than usual, looking like ghostly reflections of last nights f...

Hot! Humid! Thundershowers! Last week of it for this season? Let's hope so. I am looking forward to comfortably wearing my chamois shirt...

accept neither fake shamrocks nor fake democracy Photo by J. Harrington Our democracy needs to emulate St. Patrick and escape from i...

'Tis New Year's Eve, the sky is blue above Minnesota's cold air. We're ending the year with rare glimpses of sunshine. I...

I can now report that the last trace of open water on the Sunrise River pools near County Highway 36 is gone. Interestingly, though, there...

Before I moved to Minnesota, I lived up the road from Plymouth Rock and Plimoth Plantation . As a native son of Massachusetts, I learned mo...

Water is often described as following the path of least resistance. These days the same may be said about oil, or at least oil pipelines. Th...

This month we should have more than 400 wildflowers in bloom . The Sturgeon (full) Moon will be August 18. The local corn I've noticed ...

Almost six months ago, we questioned why the environment didn't have a lobbying force as effective as the NRA . Since then, the members ...

Earth, in our neighborhood, each year suffers through early Spring's labor pangs and is once again reborn. Leaves, emerging in more shad...

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving for many of us. After Santa arrives at the end of the Macy's parade, we can turn on our Christmas lights with...

monarch butterfly in a Minnesota driveway Photo by J. Harrington Today I'm grateful for the announcement that the first wave?,...

I'm fascinated by how cold 45°F feels in late October compared to how warm it feels in early March. We have officially been snowed on,...