Just a couple of days ago I sat sweltering in the heat, feeling like even a sundress was too much clothing for the temperature of the day. Today I wear long sleeves, tights and boots…
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(Wednesday, September 8, 2010) — Today I fly to Haiti. In some way I feel like I am going home. For three months I called an unfinished nightclub in Leogane Haiti home. I went to…
Books “Rae’s eyes were red and swollen. They sat on the couch side by side, in silence, waiting for the doctor.” from Crooked Little Heart by Anne Lamott The silence of the eyes rings true,…
Question: does the desire to save the planet, protect pollywogs, make us carbon happy, and provide for a structure-free coastal viewshed exempt us from evil?
At about noon one day last week, I decided on a whim to head down to see the Twins play the Tigers at Target Field. It was pretty much a Toothbrush Trip, where you grab…
Let's pause for a moment this Labor Day to recognize some of our most important, yet most maligned workers. They're teachers and librarians, police officers and firefighters. They're bus drivers, doctors and nurses. Judges and…
The US census recently finished its national population count leaving rural residents restless over fears of undercounting since the census data is used to determine how much a tax-paying community receives in federal funding. “In…