A few years ago my friends and I discovered an odd car in a parking lot in Minneapolis, a strange-looking thing with custom tail lights, welded rails and an unpainted steel flatbed. We immediately concluded that this was perhaps the craziest, most brilliant, most ridiculous automobile we had ever seen in our lives, and [...]
Category Archives: Minnesota
Heart
June 17, 2007
I don’t know what to say, so pardon my obliqueness.
When Kate told me the news I booked a flight back to Minnesota for the following day.
That was a week ago last Friday.
Kate and I went canoeing. We visited with friends. We went to the zoo. We picked strawberries.
The service was [...]
Fire Season
May 20, 2007
The Ham Lake Fire is now 100% contained on the American side. It’s still got some elbow room on the Canadian side, but it has mellowed out considerably over the last few days. Today it even snowed up at camp, and so we all breathe a collective sigh of relief as we realize [...]
Locality
May 13, 2007
My beer’s fermentation was slow to start on its first day, but now that the yeast has had a bit of time to get its bearings things are cookin’ right along. My closet currently smells like a blue ribbon at an Appalachia science fair. For future reference I know not to pitch my [...]
