My Minnesota

Our temperatures are consistently running above “normal” while precipitation is sparse to nonexistent. This is likely to present complicatio...

Some folks consider tomorrow to be midwinter because it’s halfway between the autumn and spring equinoxes. Others count it as the first day ...

Once again I find myself wondering, if leaf color kept changing every season except bare branch winter, would we still find it as attractive...

This year, and a few preceding it, remind me of the opening of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities . It was the best of times, it was the ...

 Perhaps we’ve acted prematurely, overly optimistically, but the winter parkas and heaviest coats have been returned to the closet. It’s not...

Most year’s we take down the Christmas decorations and the tree about the time of the feast of the Epiphany, January 6, when the Three Wise ...

Yesterday was winter solstice, the shortest day and longest night of the year. According to my copy of the Minnesota Weatherguide Engagement...

For those of you who may have thought that 2020 was a real shit-show, have you noticed that, so far,  2021's response has been "Hol...

Today, in the Northern hemisphere, the sun will reach its most northerly point at 4:23 this afternoon, our local time. If we stop to think a...

Three days of temperatures at or near 90℉ several days prior to reaching Summer solstice makes me glad that the meteorologists started Summe...

With less than a week left in April, I'd say it's officially "late April." According  to Minnesota Seasons , that means we...

New years come infrequently. New decades even more so. Each day, though, begins with a new morning. “ How we spend our days is,...

As noted elsewhere, we are a recovering planner who spent most of a career focused on envisioning and facilitating the creation of various f...

We have searched wide and deep on the internet and have not uncovered anything Tony Hoagland has written about C.D. Wright's "Ou...

This morning, driving through the rain, I started to wonder where the phrase "April showers bring May flowers" came from. It certa...

Are you looking forward to next year? I am. 2014 has been a pretty good year for us so far, but some things that I started this year I hop...