After rushing my daughter to her weekly violin lesson last Saturday, my regular waiting-bench in the hall of MacPhail School of Music wasn’t going to cut it.… Read more “the right place at the right time”

Not long ago I started to dream about observing a “Pandemic Remembrance” week. To be clear, I wasn’t necessarily inspired by honorable reasons, like; to honor heroic… Read more “Holiness, two- Snowplows”

Part 1:  I have a cookbook from the church my grandma loved. It’s called Heavenly Delights: a Collection of Recipes and was put together by women from… Read more “Holiness, one- Butter”

My spouse likes long hours of daylight. He prefers when the sun sets after dinner time. He throws a one-man dance party each spring when Daylight Savings… Read more “december- dark”

I’m not sure when middle-age begins, but I think by all accounts I’ve reached it. November loves to point out the passing of time. Maybe it’s the… Read more “november- spirals”

The lakes of Minnesota are about to turn themselves inside out.  All summer, the waters have been warming. You’ve felt it when swimming in a summery lake;… Read more “October- the turnover”

I wasn’t willing at the end of August, but now that it’s September I clearly see the flocks of wild Canada geese (Branta canadensis) preparing for their… Read more “September- Wild Geese”

There are a lot of things I like about REM’s music, but their word nightswimming I love the most. And August is the time for nightswimming. You… Read more “august- nightswimming”

We moved to a new house in July. Our new place is just two blocks away from our old house, but we now have enough bedrooms that… Read more “july- white oaks”