Day 1: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 It’s a ghostly morning in Grand Marais. Fog fills the downtown streets and limits visibility to less than a block at times, adding to the unfamiliar excitement that comes with vacationing far from home. My brother and I visit the Lake Superior Trading Post, where the bathroom is off … More Lost & Found: A Boundary Waters Trip Report
Five o’clock Friday, I drive home as fast as I can on the icy streets. When I get there, I pack my car: thirty-below sleeping bag, long underwear, snow pants, chopper mitts, beanie, scarf, ski goggles, and a change of clothes. My cross-country skis are last and run the length of the small car’s cabin, … More Heading Toward the Light
Reflection I am zoo zebra at dream watering hole drinking myself wild again Farley (0:25 w/ acrostic explanation) For a brother Are you finally resting? Raging humanity owes you Lost children are found Every time You appear Discouraged (0:30) Don’t be discouraged, friend I was once where you are now … More My four-minute poetry set from “When Bison Speak”
1:30 p.m. Monday, January 16, 2017, Martin Luther King Jr. Day I have the day off from work and am just poking around the apartment, mostly grazing and watching old Westerns on MeTV. The Big Valley (with Lee Majors) just got over. Up next is Gunsmoke. I must be on a Western kick; last night … More Picking Up
Well, it’s been a rough week out here on the edge of the prairie. On Monday night, Jon and I were driving up to the hospital in Grand Forks to visit a friend of ours who was comatose in the ICU. As the sun set on I-29 he asked if I had heard about Bob, … More Love You Guys (The News from Fargo)
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