My Minnesota

Last Spring, about the time our pear tree was in bloom, I finally stumbled onto a local source of serviceberry bushes, of a species noted fo...

 From time to time I mention that I’m proud to “be of Irish extraction.” Here’s one reason why: The Littlest Christmas Tree By Amy Peterson ...

Here in Minnesota, today is “Give to the Max Day.” My email inbox and our snail mail box have been getting loaded with notices about how muc...

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...

With less than a week left in April, I'd say it's officially "late April." According  to Minnesota Seasons , that means we...

One of the ways I find poetry most full of life is that, as often as not, poets surprise me with their poems. I've enjoyed many Christma...

A few days ago, the Jeep was parked in the lot of a big box grocery store. Its owner was inside getting a prescription filled and replenish...

From the biblical stories of the birth of Christ we read: In those days a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should ...

As far back as we can remember, we've tended toward being a perfectionist. (We suspect the Better Half might claim we've succeeded i...

Studs Terkel, a great listener, wrote the book  Hope Dies Last  when he was in his early 90s. Rebecca Solnit's second edition of Hope in...

This year is the 50th Anniversary of the establishment of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act and the designation of the Namekagon and St. Croix...

The context: Original Caption Released with Image: This narrow-angle color image of the Earth, dubbed 'Pale Blue Dot', is ...

We engaged in a bit of remedial education this morning, centered around the word reciprocity . We had come to believe that the word essentia...

I think the first time I encountered the concept that less bad did not equal good was when I read  Cradle to Cradle . It struck much closer ...