My Minnesota

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 Minnesota Weatherguide notes that tonight’s full moon is the ricing moon (Ojibwe) or the harvest moon (Lakota). At month’s end, we’ll ha...

 It seems clear to me that, over the years since 1970, the environmental movement has lost considerable momentum. Many of the Earth Day mess...

 Several writers in the Star Tribune have recently managed to get their underwear in a bunch over this year’s Minnesota Governor’s Fishing O...

One of my personal heroes is Gus Speth . He’s the author of a recently published book,  They Knew: The US Federal Government’s Fifty-Year Ro...

A long, long time ago, I had a job that included, as one of its responsibilities, drafting the proverbial “one pager for the governor.” If t...

Drove through some  pretty country this morning while picking up our Summer Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Share box 1. Birds are sta...

This morning, for the first time in months, there were turkeys in the back yard. A flock of 10 or 12 hens hunted and pecked their way throug...

Today is Smokey the Bear's 75th birthday. One of our favorite poets, 50 long years ago, said what is even more important today and tomor...

As bud burst and the first hint of leaf out appears in our local trees, their stark, harsh Winter outlines begin to soften. We've notice...

One of the first, and best, authors writing about climate disruption and its consequences is Bill McKibben. He started with The End of Natur...

Last night we read the last "Fall" story in Emily Stone's natural connections book. It was about chickadees and the author...

The past few days we've seen a couple of large, beautiful hawks soaring over the fields behind the house. We haven't yet got a close...

One outcome of our recent participation in a workshop about "nature writing" was a reminder that we had started to compile a list ...

This morning, on our way to the Leopold Center, we found several fields full ion flocks of cranes and Canada geese. Several years ago we fou...