My Minnesota

leaning day lilies Photo by J. Harrington About this time each summer, local day lilies put on a show like the one above. For some years n...

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...

Many, many years ago I encountered the quote : “Demography is destiny,” probably in a college sociology course. This morning, and in other r...

Yesterday we promised to share another bear story. We confess we think this is a bear story but do not have proof of such. Last Thursday we...

I’ve noticed lots of comments (complaints) on social media about how bad the mosquitos are this year. Local, and, I think, national, news ha...

 And all through the house, the cold was still seeping, through holes made by a mouse. We’re still under a wind chill advisory. It looks lik...

There is a loaf (boule) of sourdough bread in the oven. The oven is both baking the bread and warming the house. I am enjoying a rare sense ...

At the moment, the only complaint I have about October is the amount of political ads and commentary we have to suffer. I suppose an alterna...

There’s less than a week remaining until the December moon is full (December 18). It occurs a few days ahead of the winter solstice and a we...

Yesterday, we watched three sandhill cranes land in a nearby stubble field. This morning we noticed a flock of four cranes flying  toward th...

On this day in 1865, William Butler Yeats was born. That makes today the 154th anniversary of his birth. There's a British-Irish folk r...

More years ago than we can be sure of, the Daughter Person assigned us the responsibility of getting a new Christmas book every year at this...

It's been years since we read Joseph Heller's Catch 22 . Despite that passage of time, recently we've been more and more haunted...

The January first morning sunlight (at least that's what we think it is) caused the local trees to cast Northwest-pointed shadows across...

One area of my education that is sadly lacking includes painting and art history and related topics. I know there's something called ...