Oct 16, 2025
Today’s joy, of the street music variety. An older woman rhythmically walking a pitbull down a park path this morning, a little strut to it, the dog pulling on the leash, her headphones over stocking cap (for it is October now), singing loudly with an accompanying...
Aug 14, 2025
I’m going to a birthday celebration this month. It’s for a sloth. You can come, too; it is open to the public! Lovely Chloe is turning 21. Chloe will be receiving guests in the Tropical Encounters exhibit at Como Zoo and Conservatory in Saint Paul, Minnesota. There is...
May 8, 2025
It’s May, and this northern city is finally greening. The buildings, the built world, are the same, but the infrastructure of trees, dozing during the winter months, is rousing. Spring has moved northward on its own mysterious, rhythmic, and dependable calendar. It...
Apr 10, 2025
It’s almost axiomatic now to think unpleasantly about downtowns. They’re this, they’re that, they’re the other thing. Unappealing, worsening. Here’s a contrary view, from my desk in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota on a regular old Tuesday morning, a cold spring day....
Sep 20, 2022
Seek and find this remarkable view of downtown Saint Paul, from the public dock on Harriet Island. (Directions below.) Go at the end of the daylight one of these cool fall evenings. The sun goes down, somewhere over toward the Cathedral, and the skyline comes up...
