Old Man Winter

A couple of weeks ago, I returned to Minnesota from Galveston, Texas, where I’d enjoyed temperatures in the very pleasant seventies. Last night in the Twin Cities, the mercury plummeted to fourteen degrees below zero with wind chills approaching thirty-five degrees below. It’s easy to enjoy life when you’re strolling along a balmy beach. But … Read more

Snow Angels Among Us

I confess that I have always believed in angels, quite literally. I’ve experienced angelic intervention several times in my life. But I also know that there are angels among us who are only too human. And my daughter is one. She’s what in St. Paul are called Snow Angels. This is a small group of … Read more

The Last Rides of the Season

I don’t know how you deal with all the overindulgence in food during the Thanksgiving weekend or what you do about the new, alarming weight that the bathroom scale insists you’ve put on. Me, I bike. The temperature in the Twin Cities hit the mid-50s over the weekend, and I took what will probably be … Read more

Big Bend

I’ve spent the last several days in glorious isolation in the Big Bend National Park area of southwest Texas, where I had neither cell phone reception nor access to the internet. I missed all the news of the world and the nation, including the election results. (I voted early.) It was so marvelously refreshing to … Read more