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 . . .
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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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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, . . .
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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, . . .
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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, . . .
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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 . . .
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August 25, 2009 04:13 PM EDT --
Numbers this month show that the U.S. economy is more productive. But what’s the toll of that productivity?
Stephanie Massey of Mound has some idea. Her husband, who works for a large financial . . .
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May 14, 2006 01:22 AM EDT --
Ok, so do you like to fish?
If so, what kind of fish to you like to "try" to catch...and do you have any luck?
I love to fish for bass. I enjoy the casting & reeling motion, watching some, . . .
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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 . . .
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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" . . .
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March 12, 2009 01:48 PM EDT --
Okay, money doesn't buy happiness. And accumulating stuff shouldn't make us whole.
But there are some possessions that have value greater than the pricetag. And yet, in a recession, when the . . .
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March 16, 2009 01:03 PM EDT --
So, last year I attempted to be a better gardener. I think I succeeded. You can look at my video from last year to see what a horror show it was. The dead tree is down in the backyard and . . .
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August 28, 2009 04:54 PM EDT --
We told you last week about the .3 percent decrease in Minnesota’s unemployment numbers. That's the good news.
But check this out: The number of job vacancies decreased by 40 percent from the . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 ... . . .
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January 19, 2008 04:30 PM EST --
President Bush and our Washington leaders are setting down a plan to "stimulate the economy." Perhaps it's more like that moment when the ship with a leak starts listing and you grab the . . .
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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: . . .
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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 . . .
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March 12, 2009 03:16 PM EDT --
I live in Minnesota. Yes, the state that's too cold. Too snowy. Too liberal. In my state, my community, my yard, there lies in slumber an exercise-garden. I've been prepping . . .
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