I was curious about solar eclipses in the United States since we became a nation. Here’s the list. Yesterday’s eclipse in Rochester NY, mid afternoon wasn’t directly visible to the locals. Below photo by and of John Bernard in Rochester area on April 8…. The internet report about Rochester NY for April 8. I knew […]
Four years ago, as Covid-19 strangled all of our ‘business as usual’ notions, there still seems a national PTSD. We all have our stories. I decided to use my time ‘in quarantine’ 2020-21 to sort through and label over 20,000 photos then-and-still stored on my computer. Most photos were unlabeled. (Most were digital, […]
This morning I surprised a Ma and Pa Duck out scouting for a nesting place. Memo to Ma and Pa: there are better places than a bush besides a busy sidewalk…good hunting. A few minutes earlier I remarked to a fellow walker in the Health Center my prediction that there’s at least one decent snowstorm […]
Overnight Tuesday came an e-mail from a friend, commenting on a Frank Lloyd Wright home she know, somewhere. The reference jogged me to think back to mid-October, 2013, visiting Wright’s Taliesin, Spring Green WI, and seeing a unique windmill there (see photos at end of this post). In turn, that caused me to think of […]
PRE-NOTE: I recommend the on-line program Monday March 25. Details, scroll down here. This morning (Saturday March 23) at 6 a.m. I was arriving at my coffee shop, and directly ahead of me was the most striking view of a full moon I have ever seen. It was about tree top level, soon to set. […]
The emphasis of this post is the upcoming talk by Nurit Peled-Elhanan (see below). All I know about the talk and speaker is what you see below. To be clear, what the speaker will likely talk about is common in how national histories are conveyed. All who feel they’re part of a dominant culture or […]
The major headline in today’s Minneapolis StarTribune: “U.S. ups embassy security in Haiti. Military flies to capital with gangs largely in control“. This is not the kind of publicity one likes to see. The details are readily available on-line, so I won’t go into the current event. Rather, I want to afford an opportunity to […]
March 9, 2024: A reader asked for my graphic about the Presidents since FDR first published Feb 1. Here it is: Presidents since FDR DRAFT Feb 1 2024. This morning (March 7), at coffee, I was musing about the conference table at my left. It is a table quite often occupied in whole or in […]
POSTNOTE March 6 6 a.m.: Minnesota returns here. For context, there were 3,542,947 persons who. could have voted; typically, Minnesota has very high voter turnout. About 11% of eligible voters split their vote between the two most popular candidates. (Voters had to choose one ballot: Republican, Democrat, or Legal Marijuana Now.) My “favorite” candidate: Vermin […]
POSTNOTE March 1, 2024: A news headline tonight: 249 days to the Election. Where do you fit in this picture? The formal political process varies state-by-state, and party-by-party in the United States with infinite local variations. So, as I write on Feb. 29, 2024, the 2020 process has just begun in Minnesota (not counting the […]