My Minnesota

You can thank my Better Half for today’s posting. This morning she sent me a gift link to a Boston Globe article about the upcoming launch, ...

A growing number of cities have or are eliminating single family zoning to increase density and make housing more affordable and cities mor...

Tomorrow is Indigenous Peoples’ Day . If I’ve read my history correctly, settlement of the “New World” by European colonists was largely jus...

Canada is once again smoke-bombing the Midwest. We’re under an air quality alert until noon tomorrow. I’m once again deferring burning falle...

Those who read this blog with any regularity have probably realized that Joy Harjo is one of my favorite poets and writers. Today I encounte...

The elderberry bush growing in the “wet spot”in the back yard is coming into flower. More orange day lilies, plus one scarlet one, have star...

I spent an interesting and educational lunchtime today participating in an online nature writing course using Zoom. [Our crappy internet ser...

Today is International Women’s Day. By a fortuitous circumstance, there is a significant overlap between today’s celebration and the partici...

 I first read Joy Harjo’s An American Sunrise in 2019. By April of this year I’ll have reread it because it’s the NEA Big Read in the St. C...

It may be particularly appropriate that this Thanksgiving week, although we are saddened to learn that the poet Robert Bly has walked on, w...

With leaf color at, or just past, peak, there are few things these days more enjoyable than cruising country roads. We've been taking lo...