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Category Archives: Blog
When Craigslist Gives You Lemons
My favorite thrift store, Steeple People, closed up shop at the end of January. Our building, at the corner of Franklin and Lyndale in the Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis, will be torn down and a big old condo complex will … Continue reading
No Ga Ga for La La
Sunday Feb 26, 2017. 5 pm. On this Oscar Eve, I plan to whine and complain for up to 900 words about something that just doesn’t matter – a mediocre movie. And I want to do it NOW because I’m … Continue reading
Hello From the Other Side – Lessons from Grammy Adele
I didn’t watch the Grammys. I never watch the Grammys. I vaguely remember doing laundry last night or dishes or something equally scintillating instead of watching the Grammys. The internet was all abuzz this morning with rumors of Adele making … Continue reading
KidLit Resource List – Books for trying times
In the aftermath of the inauguration, many members of the Minnesota children’s literature community gathered virtually on the MN Kidlit Facebook page. Words matter. No one knows this more than the dedicated souls who write and illustrate for youth. We … Continue reading
Train is a Comin’
I feel like I’m about to be mowed down by a high-speed train filled to the brim with radioactive orange sludge. Maybe you feel the same way. Here are some ideas for what we can do under such circumstances: 1) … Continue reading
Sunday Morning, Naked.
Ace gets up, agitated in his appointed role of The One Who Has To Take The Big E To Hockey. I lie in bed and listen to the fussing and whining. And then silence. I get up. ”E! Get up! … Continue reading
The Space Between
Ace, The Big E, and I traipsed over to our friends’ house New Year’s Eve and made sushi. (Lest you think I’ve completely lost my medical mind, let me assure you that I ate the slightly less raw fish.) We … Continue reading
Merry Christmas, Thief
To the person who stole my identity last week: We need to talk. Your timing was, shall we say, suboptimal. I realize you probably thought you were being helpful, applying for all those credit cards using my name, date-of-birth, and … Continue reading
The Darkest Days
The first week of December, a young Minnesota mother died by suicide. The effects of her death rippled through my FaceBook feed, particularly impacting the breastfeeding, attachment parenting, and ECFE communities. I read some of the details of her story, … Continue reading
The Non-Reproducible Cheeseball
Food management is not one of my strengths. I cook because we eat, not from a place of wholesome domestic joy. Over the years, Ace and I have strategized approaches to meal-planning: Monday is Fish Night, Tuesday is Taco Tuesday, … Continue reading
