My Minnesota

 Long, long, ago, in a country far, far, away, I seem to recall lending my young daughter my copy of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals ....

Yes, I'm aware of the current clashes between the American Gestapo [ICE] and local governments and/or protestors. Been there, done that ...

Yesterday we picked up another autumn community supported agriculture [CSA] share. This week our box contained: RED KURI SQUASH RED POTATOES...

I haven’t yet had my fill of watermelon or ripe peaches. I have reached my limit on humidity, temperatures of more than 89℉, drought, and cl...

We dodged several bullets yesterday, almost literally. There were thunderstorms all around us and we were caught, briefly, in a torrential d...

The universe is estimated to be almost 15 billion years old; the Earth about 4.5 billion; humans (Homo sapiens) less than a million . I nee...

There’s an article in the Star Tribune that misses several significant points relative to its purported subject. The head states:  Minnesota...

The following is from  Stop the Charade: The Federal Budget Is Its Own ‘Debt-Ceiling’ in a recent Forbes. I am not a lawyer, so I don’t kno...

These above freezing temperatures have me almost giddy. The dogs are enjoying our walks and spending much more time sniffing their way aroun...

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

I did not know until this morning that there’s an organization devoted to “PROTECT, PRESERVE, AND RESTORE WILD NATIVE FISH POPULATIONS THROU...

Today’s posting is short and, I hope, sweet. There’s a new report from the United Nations that’s written about in The Guardian:  Humans need...

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...

I spent early this morning on  World Environment Day as usual, drinking coffee and reading poetry. Then I started up the tractor and mowed ...

 In 1990, the Blandin Foundation published a book with text by Paul Gruchow and photos by Jim Brandenburg. Its title: Minnesota: Images of ...