My wife and I are preparing to say goodbye to Arizona. It’s been a lovely time here, celebrating our fifty years together. In a way, it seems to me the desert and marriage share similarities. They both can be challenging. To survive them requires a keen eye to the dangers. It’s best if you don’t … Read more
Fifty years ago in March, my wife and I exchanged wedding vows. We wrote our own, which we memorized. At the ceremony, I remembered mine, but Diane was nervous. She forgot her vows and winged it. Still, she made some wonderful promises, which she has never forgotten, and across these fifty years, she has been … Read more
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
For me, so much of the past year has felt as if we were all finally emerging from the long, dark tunnel of self-isolation necessary due to the pandemic. Since vaccines have become readily available, the world has been reconnecting in person, and for me, being able to gather with colleagues and fans again has … Read more
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