Dear Darling Ones, My stomach hurts. Today in #BigBlizzardInMyBackYard hijinks I made some Big Blizzard Bars (Corn chex, peanut butter,…
Posts tagged MN living
Just Thinking About the Weather
So Darling Ones, Allegedly, a metric fuckton of snow is going to fall from the sky and land on the…
Like Jackie Gleason or is it a Duck Duck Grey Duck Thing?
So I was watching the old Rankin & Bass “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” special on TV tonight, because of course…
It means the Earth is dying
As I type this at 10:15 p.m. at night in front of Conan’s show, smug with the knowledge that I…
Anatomy of a snow day, a post in excruciating detail
For Christa When my alarm went off at 7:13 a.m., I was a little giddy and groggy. It took me…
21.5 inches
I missed the great Halloween Blizzard of ’91, because I was living in Wisconsin. So this is the first epic…
Severe weather dramas
My mom grew up in a tiny green house near a creek in Savage, Minnesota. The house was across from…
Oh Duluth, you crazy literature-loving loonies
I don’t often listen to MPR during the work o’clock hours. Mostly, I spend those hours torturing Trip Shakes and…
Mama, mama we’re all crazy here
After spending 3 hours commuting in the last 17 hours, I’m pretty sure that everyone of us who chooses to…
On the street where I live
Temps were in the 40s yesterday here in Minnesota. It caused a lot of melting, and then when the temps…