My Minnesota

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...

This morning, as I drove out of the drive,  I looked across the road to see fields of purple lovegrass, covered in dew, made glowing white b...

The executive branch of Minnesota's government has approved an amended permit allowing massive water withdrawals to support the construc...

There's a loaf of artisan sourdough bread that just came out of the oven. Other than waiting for the rise to occur, bread baking is not ...

Thanks to the time of year and the weather patterns, I've begun rereading a couple of books of poetry that involve Ted Kooser and Jim Ha...

The last chapter in Terry Tempest Williams [TTW] new book, Erosion - Essays of Undoing , begins with a wonderful quotation from David Orr . ...

So far today we've noticed three things that seem unusual, although it may just be that what we've seen is normal and we simply have...

This, the eighteenth in Tony Hoagland's list of Twenty Poems That Could Save America , is a poem we have studied in several classes over...

Today we're back to a poem about which Tony Hoagland has written in Twenty Poems That Could Save America and spoken about in a Public T...

Our first posting here was November 5, 2012. We missed a few days in 2013, due to an injury. Taking that into account, we've now been po...

Depending on your definitions , the morning around here has been full of snow showers or flurries. I'm not sure what kind of clouds we...

monarch butterfly in a Minnesota driveway Photo by J. Harrington Today I'm grateful for the announcement that the first wave?,...

Happy Earth Day. By now you've probably heard that President Obama has been reported to claim that Senator Warren is just plain wrong...