My Minnesota

'Tis a weekend of Halloween and Samhain . Whether you consider it a trick or a treat, don't forget to turn your clocks back to stand...

Depending on whether you count from Memorial Day or Summer Solstice, Summer's arrival is a little late or a little early. In either case...

Last week we saw a very rare occurrence for Minnesota in mid-February: not one but two separate and distinct motorcycles were on the road la...

Welcome to Sun Day ! There's an (in)famous quote about news: "If it bleeds, it leads." Doom-scrolling social media, reading th...

Neighborhood day lilies have started to bloom. That means it’s time to watch (out) for fawns, goslings and wild turkey poults. A couple of d...

 It’s the middle of the last week of 2024. I’m contemplating a New Year’s Resolution to give up doom scrolling. That probably also means no ...

I don’t know about you, but it doesn’t feel to me like next week should be the 4th of July, but here we are. One week from today is Independ...

Once upon a time, I believed that big government was the the way to control big business, i.e., mega corporations. Then came regulatory capt...

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...

From today’s issue of The Guardian: Republican senator Tom Cotton calls for vigilantism to break up Gaza protests One can but presume the sa...

Three years ago to the day, on April 13, 2021, the backyard forsythia was in bloom. There are even more flowers on it today than there were ...

Back in the days when I was in school learning Latin, dei in that language translated into “of god” in English. I suspect it’s coincidental ...

When I voted this morning, there were four election judges, and me, for the entire mid-morning time I was there. Someone left the voting sit...

The trash is collected and waiting to get picked up tomorrow. Regenerated whole wheat sourdough flour is rising to get baked tomorrow. Earli...

This morning I discovered an encouraging resource at Wikipedia on the  Rights of Nature . I was poking around following up on yesterday’s po...

Yesterday the high was over 50℉. Today there are snowflakes in the air. We’ve reached a point at which the weather makes as much sense as an...