My Minnesota

Today I’m (re)posting the story below because, as much  as I dislike MAGAts, I keep wondering who is benefitting from our being at each othe...

It seems to me that Dee Davis’ (publisher of the Daily Yonder and president of the Center for Rural Strategies). review of White Rural Rag ...

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

The sky is bright blue and cloudless from where I sit. Warm sunshine contributes to above seasonal temperatures. Almost all of the snow from...

We’ve reached the time when even the oak leaves are changing color. For the first time this season, snow showers have appeared in the extend...

I know it won’t be easy, but I’m determined to put more energy every day into accomplishing something good than I do into bitching about wha...

In the midst of the first full day of spring in the northern hemisphere in 2022, local skies are overcast. We may, or may not, reach or exce...

Spend too much (any?) time on social media or scanning the home pages of newspapers these days and you may well end up looking like poor Mr....

Thirty years ago, in 1991, the Blandin Foundation turned fifty years old. In anticipation, the Foundation published a book, text by Paul Gr...

While skimming through some photos, I noticed that, near the end of September a couple of years ago, the bird bath was covered by a skim coa...

John Ashbery wrote a poem that may, or may not, belong on a list like Tony Hoagland's Twenty Poems That Could Save America . We haven...

Am Trak wifi internet connections are about non-existent between Boston, MA and Erie, PA and slow and sporadic West of Erie. That's why ...

I recognize and remember the "bones" of downtown, although much of the flesh has changed. But Christmas time in the city is a tim...

The Better Half and I headed to St. Paul today. We were past due for a visit to Nina's Cafe, plus, Sixth Chamber books was holding for m...