My Minnesota

Many decades ago, when I was in college, a sociology professor teaching one of the courses I took noted that technology changes much faster ...

Normally, this would have been posted before now, during the afternoon of May 29, 2024 but, as all too often occurs, our internet service pr...

I’ve been fussing and fuming for the past few hours because I couldn’t get at the part of the Blogger software that lets me create this page...

The only newspaper I read regularly these days is The Guardian ’s US edition. Sometime in the past day or two, I’ve noticed a sudden increas...

We’ve reached the time when even the oak leaves are changing color. For the first time this season, snow showers have appeared in the extend...

Where we live, it looks very much like a mast year for acorns. The bur oak has been dropping nuts for a couple of weeks and the other oaks a...

Here’s what’s supposed to be in this week’s community supported agriculture [CSA] share. It’s the last one in the summer series. (Yesterday ...

The election results could have been worse. Mainstream media expected a “red wave.”  Democrats largely held their own and, in Minnesota, mad...

Yesterday I went on a rant about the lousy utility service we get from Xcel and frontier. Also, there’s no longer a good source I can find f...

I remember when I was a kid, we weren’t the first family on our block to have a tv. I watched Howdy Doody and similar programs at a neighbor...

A male Baltimore oriole appeared at the feeder this morning. That seems to confirm our suspicion that they’ve been too busy parenting hatchl...

Many of the north-south routes in our neck of the woods are impaired by road construction. Interstate 35 is backed up at least from Stacy so...

 One of the nice things about below average temperatures in June is that the bread baking season continues to warm the house and make it sme...

According to our email version of yesterday's  The Writer's Almanac , On this date [Jan 2] in 1974,  President Nixon signed a law ...

It’s a dreary, snowy day. I’m not sure when this will get posted because there’s an “area network problem” affecting our DSL. Would that we ...