It’s almost the last weekend in February and the polar vortex has finally departed, so what does that mean? It’s seed starting time! Technically I should wait until next weekend, but I need some growing green friends to care for right now, and really what difference will one week make?
I just finished reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s Ministry for the Future. Where his book New York 2140 is a grim picture of the future with New York City flooded by the ocean due to climate change, Ministry for the Future is a story of how we might save ourselves from
Back in the mid-1990s when Minneapolis had a gang-war problem it became known for awhile as “Murderapolis.” Those days are thankfully gone, but there is still murder in the air. Minneapolis is host to a mega-murder of crows. During the winter, thousands of crows from as far away as 30 miles,
Remember how I was so upset to learn Ralph Waldo Emerson was a Saxonist? I have finally read The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter where she lays it all out. And, well, it’s bad. First, a little history The idea the Anglo-Saxons were the pinnacle of human
All I can say is, wow, there sure has been a lot of things happening. I was at work and blissfully unaware about the Capitol insurrection on January 6th. I was having a busy day and floating on the happiness of the election outcome in Georgia until my boss walked