Tag: life
group name: mnlife
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March 19, 2008 12:51 PM EDT --
In response to Julia Schrenkler's challenge, S hare Your History: How Did You Arrive In Minnesota ,
I have put together the following ...
MINNESOTA . . . more
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July 04, 2008 05:08 PM EDT --
It's typical... it's cliche... and I love it.
Family on the Fourth.
Hey, if you want edgy... go read something else.
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November 07, 2006 08:25 AM EST --
Talk about everything - and anything - but politics on election day? Why not? Sure, some of us are delighted in the day, glad to see our work primed to display results, looking forward to the event, . . . more
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March 21, 2008 11:25 AM EDT --
Ah, the glorious snow day! Probably the happiest mornings of any northern state childhood, these were days when we would hop out of bed early in order to glue our ears to good old 'CCO radio, . . . more
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July 03, 2008 10:13 PM EDT --
It was a gift... unexpected... and unaware you needed it until it was there.
The best kind of gift.
Lunchtime in downtown StP. The tension of a work morning at a terminal . . . more
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July 08, 2008 10:42 PM EDT --
I swore off the whole damn thing not a week ago. I vowed that I would shun for the rest of the baseball season a team that I had long rooted for - the New York Mets.
"resolute" . . . more
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July 20, 2006 11:07 AM EDT --
I can't take my eyes off this image slideshow: A closeup view of the BWCA fire (Flash required)
Have you been to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness lately?
From MPR News feature BWCA fire: . . . more
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June 25, 2008 12:25 PM EDT --
You learn as a parent ... continually. And usually it's a lesson on your shortcomings.
One recent lesson starts like this: Kids have moods for the same reason we all do. Because sometimes you . . . more
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August 02, 2007 07:23 PM EDT --
“Let’s just stop for dinner,” I begged from the back seat.
Our son was driving—we were headed home from our family canoe trip in the Boundary Waters Wilderness. We had . . . more
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July 07, 2008 09:55 PM EDT --
See the sly boy's face...
Between the thicket of two pines...
Look up, see the sunshafts...
Busting through branches, through leaves and tangle...
Of maple fronting . . . more
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July 17, 2008 10:46 PM EDT --
He's quite certain that his parched throat, his squint means no disrespect to the sun.
Morning breaks and with comes the bravery of songbirds seeking food
It humbles him ... . . . more
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July 20, 2008 11:00 PM EDT --
The robin's alarm and the crow's rude cackle are all to be sensed...
The world still sleeps, except for the birds of pre-dawn...
So complete is the darkness here, no laws exist, . . . more
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August 22, 2006 05:58 PM EDT --
Our local county historical society has a log cabin exhibit at the county fair and I just spent the past four days working in it. The cabin was built in the northern Minnesota woods in 1893 . . . more
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April 28, 2006 12:07 PM EDT --
beryl recently sent me a link to her page at the Minnesota States ArtsBoard site of the Art of Recovery reading she did last weekend, at theMinnesota State Arts Board. There's a video of her . . . more
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May 13, 2006 12:27 PM EDT --
<h1 style="">About me</h1>
Born at 10:04am proving early on that I was NOT a morning person.
My first "playpen" was a bushel basket.
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September 20, 2006 04:28 PM EDT --
Well, it has been a quiet week in mine. The neighbors are visible more, doing their various lawn tending chores and waving from their work with rakes, and brooms. Our neighbor to the north has been out . . . more
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March 20, 2008 09:24 AM EDT --
Can a "Stop at Buzzed" campaign work to moderate college drinking? MPR's Tim Post reports Campaign urges college students to 'Stop at Buzzed' :
A student-run campaign on the . . . more
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April 14, 2008 11:12 AM EDT --
Are out-of-wedlock births no big deal? Or are they? I am listening to MPR's Midmorning and Kerri just introduced the topic:
Kids without marriage
As the rate of babies born out of . . . more
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December 23, 2006 10:33 PM EST --
Sometime during the gales after Thanksgiving, Lake Superior threw up a piece of 1870. The waves and wind blew a huge timber crib on shore, the size of a three car garage. Some timbers are a foot square . . . more
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December 30, 2006 03:43 PM EST --
We were sitting in the living room when the news anchor announced: Saddam Hussein was put to death. I had heard rumblings that it was “imminent”, “soon to happen”, . . . more
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