My Minnesota

The pointillist leaf color changer is painting our North Woods. A few leaves here, a splotch there, first sumac, now maples, against back dr...

Summer's midpoint is about a month away, on August 7, unless, like many of the Celts, we recognize only two seasons, in which case Summe...

The world is full of good, or at least better, news, but we won't find it in main stream media's "if it bleeds, it leads" ...

Today I’m (re)posting the story below because, as much  as I dislike MAGAts, I keep wondering who is benefitting from our being at each othe...

It’s the time of year when fawns and goslings and cygnets and sandhill crane colts are adulting, i.e., growing into their adulthood. It’s ne...

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...

I may have known, but forgot, or maybe I missed the announcement when it was made, but today I (re?)learned that there’s no incumbent in our...

I grew up with a story of America as a “ melting pot ,” which I incorrectly pictured as a stew pot in which the carrots and corn kernels and...

I’m not happy with the presumed choices in presidential candidates this election, but the odds are strongly against my vote going anywhere e...

Today is one of those days when I get especially homesick for my home state of Massachusetts and my home town of Boston, site of the Cradle ...

As we approach yet another Independence Day, it may be wise to recall a wonderful quotation that Bill McKibben offered about 25 years ago: T...

I remember reading, some years ago, about an old lady who claimed "I don't vote. It just encourages them.” While her attitude is ce...

Please find me in contempt of the Roberts’ SCOTUS. Also, dismayed by POTUS performance at the recent “debate.” Disgusted that our political ...

SCOTUS recently announced that it’s legitimate for cities to fine and incarcerate homeless people who have nowhere to sleep. It appears the ...

It was many years ago (1973) that the National Lampoon used the famous demand on the cover. These days, it seems to me that both political p...