Tag Archives: Minnesota

Sledding With My Dad: Good Memories

Most of the neighborhood I grew up in is now a parking lot. But Prairie Home Cemetery, a block west of the house I grew up in, is still there. I mostly remember it as being next to the sledding … Continue reading

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Frost, Smoke: Another Spring Day in Minnesota

That’s what the weather map showed last night: frost advisories for Minnesota’s northern counties, air quality alerts over the rest of the state. The air quality alert is still in effect for my part of the state and points south. … Continue reading

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Death in Burnsville, Minnesota

Sunday morning’s incident is more than three hours down the road, but still registered as ‘my part of the world’. Among the very few ‘up’ sides is that, so far, local and regional news has paid more attention to the … Continue reading

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It’s Cold Here, Too: Sauk Centre, Minnesota

We didn’t get a white Christmas this year, here in Sauk Centre, which isn’t all that unusual. But it’s definitely winter now. The furnace is still working, happily, and tomorrow morning I’ll find out if the family van will start. … Continue reading

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Silly Headlines and Space Aliens, Serious Science and UAPs

Monday, I wondered what I was going to write about this week. Then I read that scientists found methane and carbon dioxide in a not-really-Earth-like planet’s atmosphere — and saw a silly headline or two. Normally, that’d be more than … Continue reading

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