I thought a Progressive Dinner was just a bunch of liberals getting together to eat—turns out it’s so much more. This year, we hosted the appetizer course at the Mounds Park Community Garden. Friendships were made. We laughed, we cried. Our little garden showed up in a big way.
Read morePedals, Potholes, and Potato Melange: Tales from the Hodag Country Ramble
This is the transcript of a members-only episode of the Don’t Remember Me Like This podcast. It’s about the time I traveled, unemployed, to the autumn-kissed northwoods of Wisconsin for a weekend of cycling, camping, and posing as an Anthropological Biologist (whatever that is).
Read moreLa Ballena
I don’t really “do” children singing. But our daughter’s end-of-year concert had me choked the eff up. It was an emotional moment, not just because the recent news.
Read morePants
The man whose pants I was pulling on looked down at me and, through a thick black beard boomed at me, “Kid, I am not your mom.”
Read moreGrief, rage, riots and rebuilding the Twin Cities
Another black man was murdered by a white police officer. His name was George Floyd. While the rioting and looting has grabbed so much of the headlines, there is another story here, a better story. It is my goal to tell that story.
Read moreGreg, the bicycle
It takes a village to raise a bicycle. Greg is no exception. The story of Greg is a story of community and reconciling darling projects with real life and how nothing is ever perfect, but we need to move on anyway.
Read more"Fromageee!!!"
This is a story about how, in the Cathedral of Notre Dame, in the spring of 1998, I became old friends with 20 or 30 seniors on rumspringa from Green Bay Wisconsin and how they almost destroyed Western Europe with a photograph.
Read moreDancing Lessons
Stone Arch Bridge, Minneapolis
While in Minneapolis for a brief, busy weekend exploring new apartments and job prospects, a mid-April blizzard hits town and I miss my flight home.
Read moreLloyd Center Mall
I have never been very current on fashion, so my trips to the mall usually included eye-opening updates on trends. Apparently, judging by the three Russian figure skaters, there was some huge fad for czaritsa chic going around.
Read moreIf it weren't for visiting Family, we'd never make it to the Oregon coast
It is odd, how we can live next to something as spectacular as the Oregon Coast, but rarely visit.
Read moreSeattle 2.0
On a recent whim trip to Seattle, an old native is stunned to see the city he once knew, transformed into… something else. Here is a small tour through the place he once knew, accompanied by wildly inaccurate and purposely false claims about their history.
Read moreWeird about cornbread
Did you know, cornbread is actually the central dish to Thanksgiving? Here’s what happened one year I attended a potluck Thanksgiving and took the my eye off my cornbread for one second.
Read moreReading
I win every staring contest
Giving a reading is the laziest form of show business. It requires no physical agility, unless standing still is considered agility.
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