We live in Minneapolis, Minnesota with a variety of people, a big, lovable yellow lab and two cats. We love intellectual discussions so if you want to talk, come and visit.
August 30, 2010 – 12:44 pm
The last few days I have been doing quite a bit of soul-searching. Lately I’ve been in conflict with too many people and it’s really got me down. I’ve been upset with all four guys that have been living at our house. One got himself into a serious legal entanglement because he stole a lot [...]
August 26, 2010 – 2:26 pm
A couple weeks ago Kevin and I went to Big Woods State Park to go hiking. On the way I spotted a dead Canadian Goose on the highway. I had Kevin turn around so I could pick it up to give to Carlyle to use the feathers for art projects. Carlyle is Lakota from Cheyenne [...]
August 25, 2010 – 8:07 pm
Last week we (the royal we – Kevin) was working on trimming the grass around the edges of the sidewalk on the boulevard. We live on a corner so we’ve got quite a bit of sidewalk. I was cutting the grow low sumac that was growing into the sidewalk on the other side. As we [...]
August 12, 2010 – 1:39 pm
I was checking weather.com to see how hot it was supposed to get today (93). Suspecting it was going to be hot I went for a walk early in the Greenway this morning. I wore my flip flops instead of walking shoes. The dew was heavy on the grass and it was sparkling in the [...]
August 12, 2010 – 8:15 am
Last night was too hot for cooking so we went to Lunds and bought sushi. We’ve beeen buying sushi from Lunds for years. They have decent sushi. But this plate of sushi was so delicious — it was the best ever. I’m already thinking about having sushi again tonight. The green seaweed salad in the [...]
August 10, 2010 – 5:35 pm
Kevin has revived his blog. And I must say he’s gotten good at graphics and letttering. If you’d like insights into Kevin’s mind, check out his blog at the left.
I bought a new camera after I accidentally smashed mine in a car door and bent it. It still works sporadically but the electronics are going [...]
August 10, 2010 – 5:27 pm
Last year we joined the Minnesota State Parks Hiking Club. For $15.00 I got a book of all the state parks and a nifty fanny pack. Every 25 miles of hiking we earn a patch. Fifty miles doesn’t sound like much, but we can only earn mileage at each state park once, and we can [...]
August 10, 2010 – 10:48 am
Our house got hit by gunfire twice this summer. The first photo is a bullet hole in the frame of the window right where I sleep. The next photo is a shotgun blast to our garage. That shot went through the backyard and broke our kitchen window. This damage to our house is just a [...]
As I sit here today, I wonder if I should continue to write about what is going on in our neighborhood. Last night was slightly different circumstances, but same tragic misery. I don’t have answers. And I wonder if my readers get bored with the same stupidity, same misery, same dysfunction. I’m going to write [...]
Over the last few months I’ve had many discussions with Nico about Native American history. Nico is Lakota, part of the greater Sioux nation. Many people in Minnesota are Chippewa. Nico calls them Chips. When he’s annoyed with them he calls them Rabbit Chokers because they used to hunt using snares. The Chips call the [...]
This is the next post I made to the forum.
I’ve thought this exchange has been respectful and thoughtful too. Every posts has highlighted an important dimension of the problem of crime in our neighborhood. And I don’t think anyone is advocating an extreme position. Crime is a very complicated issue with no quick fix or [...]
I’ve been sporadic in posting and didn’t post for a few months so I thought I had lost all my readers. But I discovered I have comments. That’s cool. Now I’ve got to figure out how to approve them.
I am a part of an e-democracy forum. I hadn’t posted on it until today. We’ve had [...]
In the last 24 hours what has happened? Deshawn came over at 8:00 in the morning and said he was never staying at Ron’s house again because they were all drunk and there is no food in the house. That family is messed up. There are six kids in that house. The teenage daughter had [...]
After a rough, rough few months, I’ve decided I need to start posting again. For anyone that has read my blog, it’s obvious we live a rather dramatic life. Well, the last few months have been even more dramatic than last year. So dramatic I couldn’t write about it. Too much trauma. Too much pain. [...]
January 29, 2010 – 5:49 pm
I grew up in the 1970s when the Women’s Liberation movement was in it’s infancy and was fighting for legitimate issues. That was the time when women were demanding equal pay for equal work and demanding access to careers typically dominated by men. I worked with women who had been forced to quit their jobs [...]
January 23, 2010 – 4:25 pm
This is not good. Last year I went to the pro-life march at the state capital. I protested in front of the abortion clinic in St. Paul. I attended the service at the Cathedral before the march. I helped Ken with his abortion installation at Solomon’s Porch. Abortion really is an abomination.
Yesterday I found out [...]
January 20, 2010 – 1:37 pm
A few years ago Ben Johnson, a talented musician from Solomon’s Porch, wrote a song that begins “Love those that don’t know love, and protect those that cannot fight. Stand beside those, and guide those, that need to fly close to an angel’s wing.”
We have two guys living with us — one who has only [...]
January 15, 2010 – 12:53 pm
As I get older, I marvel at the ignorance and arrogance of youth. Maybe it’s more than just the youth. If I was given the task of improving public education, I would start by teaching formal logic and rhetoric beginning in middle school. And I would add thoughtful studies of the major religions and philosophers.
I [...]
January 5, 2010 – 6:16 pm
It started as a joke. It is a joke, but still, I want to achieve it. Here it is: I want to go seven days, seven glorious days, without having to go to the jail, court, hospital, doctor, detox, or have the police come to my door.
The last ten days have been an utter disaster. [...]
January 5, 2010 – 4:54 pm
On my prior post I wrote about praying that Jesse would have a rotten time when he went out. A friend suggested that praying that someone has a rotten time is not a Christian thing to do. He suggested “we should pray that God and people will extend grace and favor and good to others [...]
