I simply had no idea. I had no idea what people in my town will do to support the bands they love. I had no idea how many people love a bunch of guys from Duluth who play a rockin’ style of bluegrass and call themselves Trampled by Turtles. I just had no idea that […]
Buckets of rain
Buckets of tears
Got all them buckets comin’ out of my ears.
Buckets of moonbeams in my hand,
I got all the love, honey baby,
You can stand.
~ Bob Dylan
It has rained here. Oh, it has rained here. Yesterday, 4.61 inches. There have been waves of thunder, flashes of lightning, blasts of wind, even periods of calm […]
Went to the farmer’s market Saturday morning. Excellent as always. Bagel, coffee, strolling and shopping. Tons of people. It is definitely at its peak for the season.
This is our friend Julie selling the wonderful cheeses and bison meat of Eichten’s.
I went home to celebrate my wife and my dad’s birthdays last night. The birthdays were last Thursday and Friday, respectively. Yesterday happened to be Tuesday, and the season happens to be summer, which meant that my hometown’s “Summer Tuesdays” event was going on downtown. It’s one of the few non-touristy, non-yuppie things left in […]
I wrote this last winter. I’m posting it as part of a mini-campaign to publish some things I’ve written over the past couple years. Think of it like a compilation of rarities and outtakes.
It’s a Sunday morning and I decide to go down to an old favorite coffee shop on Selby and Western. A place […]
Today was the first day in nine days that it hasn’t reached 90 degrees in Minnesota. Though I’m usually no fan of hot weather, this hasn’t felt like a heat wave. It’s felt like July. Summer in Minnesota.
We were at a music festival (though it was about so much more than the music) all weekend […]
A chapbook I've published containing my writing alongside the work of some other talented folks.
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