See POSTNOTE About this time of day, one year ago today, we were about to leave for AMTRAK station in St. Paul Minnesota, enroute to 14 days beginning at Seattle, south to Davis, California then back via Denver. It was a memorable trip, celebrating six months out from major heart surgery December 4, 2018. There […]
UPDATE June 2: Previous and related posts: May 27, 29 and 30. Column by Ruhel Islam’s daughter in June 1, Washington Post, here. John Noltner, A Piece of My Mind, has been interviewing people at 38th and Chicago, you can see these here. PHOTOS AND MORE ADDED TO JUNE 1 POST. The future of our nation […]
Other related posts at May 27, 29 and 31 Today is beautiful in the Twin Cities – as WCCO-TV will correctly be able to say, “another Top Ten weather day”. Of course, a day is much more than “weather”…. My walk is always good reflection time, and this morning I thought back to a long ago […]
Other related posts at May 27, 30 and May 31. May 30, 2020: I have lived, worked and travelled a great deal in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area of over 3,000,000 people for most of the last 55 years, and I am not living in fear today, nor have I in the past. This is […]
Other related posts at May 29, 30 and May 31. I knew the latest Minneapolis police incident would be front page news this morning. All I didn’t know was exactly what it would look like. Here’s the ‘above the fold’. There will be a lot more to say about this, and other similar news. We […]
See also, here. This post includes a May 24 Letter from an American that deals specifically with the 100,000 casualties, thus far, from the COVID-19 Pandemic. Peter Barus’ May 22 post, here, has much food for thought for all of us, relating to the current state of our country and the globe itself. Take the […]
Friend Molly occasionally sends around a few friends on her mailing list. Here’s the weekend version, less than a page: Molly May 23, 2020 (click on image to enlarge it) May 24: from Joyce, Letter from an American. * This is not an ordinary Memorial Day. This year there will be no in-person gathering:no permit for […]
Peter and I have been on-line friends for nearing 20 years, and recently he sent me a post initially sent to “friends and family”, included a blog post he published in Op Ed News. The correspondence is sent along with his permission. The letter and two links are very much worth your time. Photo with […]
Message on back of work uniform at local McDonald’s: “Keep calm, wash your hands” – an apparent and appropriate message for both customer and server. Last year, September 11, 2019, I observed and commented that the children born on Sep 11, 2001, were all having their 18th birthday. It is now about nine months later, […]
Last week, enroute to an auto tour of the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chaska, I took a wrong turn and found myself in another neighborhood of Chaska, the 1960s era new town of Jonathan, now a large neighborhood of Chaska. I first saw this development about 1970, when we drove down from rural Anoka to […]