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Guest Post Monday – Ode to a Black Cooking Pot
My parents accumulate people. There were always extras around our home, for Thanksgiving, for Christmas, for Sunday afternoon generic communing. Mom and Dad downsized about ten years ago. Fortunately, they didn’t downsize their desire to informally adopt a lovely variety … Continue reading
Thanksgiving – Off the Beaten Path
So. Family and Friends. Let’s just get that one out of the way right off the bat. Great. Here’s a list of other stuff I’m thankful for in no particular order: 1) curiosity 2) pain sensation 3) music 4) butter … Continue reading
My Tiny Revolution
This past week has been – uh – interesting. I’m not sleeping particularly well and am nearing the point where I’ll need to withdraw completely from all sources of media. I decided to take some Tiny Steps in a Tiny … Continue reading
Goodnight Doom
In the great oval room There is a telephone With the nuclear neumes And a dead dream of – She-POTUS slaying the Agent of Doom The BA from Wellesley and Yale JD Just couldn’t win over misogyny And a … Continue reading
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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
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
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
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
Jacob Have We Loved
Dear Jacob: They found your remains last week, buried just off a country road, scarcely thirty miles from your home. That tiny remnant of hope, a single flickering candle, is now and forever extinguished. You are dead. The man who … Continue reading
The Beauty of a Handwritten Note
“I’m kind of old-school,” Dr. Seshat admits. She’s a millennial doc, finishing her Internal Medicine residency around the year 2000. Her practice straddles the old and the new. During her training, Seshat documented with a pen in a paper chart. … Continue reading