My Minnesota

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...

Winter in Minnesota often makes me feel like a five or six year old stuck in the back seat of the family car on a too long drive to somewher...

An unexpected touch of autumn has arrived, or, perhaps, spring’s cooler temperatures have returned briefly. It’s a treat, but disconcerting ...

Have you ever heard the saying “even a blind hog can find acorns once in a while?” That sort of describes much of my morning as I poked abou...

At  the moment, I’m giving thanks that the snowblower started and ran and that I managed to change the oil in it without turning the garage ...

I read something the other day that severely disrupted my perspective on life and the world. At the moment I don’t recall where I read it so...

Here’s an issue I suspect the green growth, zero growth, and downsizing folks should spend some time considering. Is the entire local govern...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently released the latest in their series of reports on its assessment of climate change . ...

July certainly has been an interesting month this year: record-setting heat waves, wide-spread drought, smoke-filled skies from hundreds of ...