Daughter Number Three

Among all the bad news, there was one small good-news story in the Pioneer Press today. (Here's a longer version from the Grand Rapids ...

Saint Paul is a beautiful city. Like many other places, our forebears cut the people parts of the city off from the river because it was a w...

If I bought tea because of its packaging, I would buy this brand: I feel soothed just looking at it. It literally (yes, literally) ma...

Local Twitter man-about-town Chris Steller responded to this tweeted question from the BeatleManiaUK — "Fact or Fiction? John got the...

There I was, innocently sitting on a bench outside a food co-op in Saint Paul, minding my own business, when I looked down and saw it: A c...

Wow, August 2021. It's ending with hurricanes, the Delta resurgence, and media frenzy about Afghanistan, all of which have overwhelmed t...

Vox writer Dave Roberts is not always perfect (who is?), but he consistentlyputs out high-quality writing and thinking, mostly about clean e...

Today is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, but 1970 was also the beginning of the second wave of food co-ops in Minnesota. Earlier this m...

Photo #5: This is another one of my shadow photos from the lobby at Hampden Park Co-op in Saint Paul. It's not often you get to see a...

Aside from an occasional Minnesota State Fair post , I don't think I've ever mentioned co-op feed bags. Today is the day that change...