Jan 5, 2014 | Blog
From Garrison Keillor, in honor of the big cold front and Epiphanies large and small: “I grew up among Bible-believing people in Minnesota, a cold-weather state when the wind blows down from Manitoba; it gets so cold your skin hurts, your innards clench up, and...Jan 2, 2014 | Blog
It’s official. December’s snowfall total was a record 91 inches. (The previous record was 77 inches.) Now the rain has made it even heavier, and messier, and the walkways and roads are even slicker. The official radio road report called driving conditions...Dec 31, 2013 | Blog
Forget diets, exercise plans, cleaning the basement, praying more and worrying less– all of that stuff will fall into place if you begin a very simple, deliberate practice of finding the good by intentionally seeking the positive in people and situations....Dec 30, 2013 | Blog
It’s crazy blowing snow and dark, again. They say we will get another 5-10 inches today, but yesterday was so great I can only hope there’s another blue sky high in our future. In the meantime, here’s a postcard of my walk home from yoga (9:30) and...Dec 29, 2013 | Blog
“How can this be? Such calm, such peace, such solitude in this world of woe?” From David Budbill’s poem, The Sixth of January. I was listening to the news of a woman suicide bomber in Russia killing 14 people at a market, when I looked out the door...Dec 27, 2013 | Blog
