Monthly Archives: October 2016

Stuff You Say If You’re Lynne Rossetto Kasper

Dear Ms. Kasper: Rick Nelson, our local food writer for the Star Tribune, wrote a lovely article about YOU in the Taste section, October 27, 2016.  An article titled “The Soup You’ll Make All Winter” certainly captures attention. Let me … Continue reading

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I Fought the Mall and the Mall Won

Let me make my position on the Mall of America patently clear: I Hate It. Yesterday, the Big E and his friend, who coincidentally shares the same name, dragged me to the Mall.  Their deep research into the topic had … Continue reading

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Unapologetically Smart

I am a woman.  I am smart. I’m using “smart” in the standard academic sense of the word, not to minimize other forms of intelligence (artistic, emotional, spatial-relational, etc.), but to limit the scope of this discussion. Perhaps I made … Continue reading

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Minnesota Reportable Communicable Disease – the stuff we got in 2015

I did not watch the presidential debate last week.  Wild horses couldn’t drag me away from my most favorite publication from the Minnesota Department of Health: The Annual Summary of Communicable Diseases Reported to the Minnesota Department of Health, 2015. … Continue reading

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