It rained a lot yesterday here in Minnesota. Then, because we live in a place that should be inhabitable by humans, the temperature plummeted some 30 degrees and here we sit with at -6 with…
Posts tagged MN living
Neurosis trumps guilt
Tonight was my last night of writing class. I am not there. I am home. The fact that I am home seems a small wonder in and of itself. I left The Nerdery at 4:55…
At work with Trip Shakespeare
I pushed my chair away from my desk and announced, “I’ve had it up to here. I’m going home.” “You do that,” my cellmate said. “Oh, by the way,” I said, throwing things into my…
Singing sweet songs of melodies pure and true
It was dusk. The odd time of the day when it’s not quite day but not yet night. FFJ was on her knees in the grass next to the pine tree, a yellow shovel in…
What not to do about a dead bird
When we last left the poor dead bird, it was swinging forlornly from the lowest branches of the pine tree. Sometime Saturday, the bird was blown from the tree and now lays feet up in…
What to do about a dead bird
There’s an enormous pine tree across the street from Supergenius HQ. The lowest branches of the tree are about a foot and a half off the ground. Hanging by a thread, literally, from one of…