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Bringing (back) the heat
New Year’s Eve found me and my wife hanging out at home with our youngest son and a couple of neighbors. We ordered takeout from a favorite neighborhood restaurant, The Blue Door. Noted for their burgers and varietal tater tots, I am partial to their Buffalo wings – some of the best I have ever… Continue reading
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Coffee for two
I stopped this morning for a cup of coffee, a place I had never been. Nina’s is on the ground floor of what once was The Angus Hotel in the historic Capitol Hill area of St. Paul. Built in 1887 as a residential hotel the ornate structure followed the path of many others in anchoring… Continue reading
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History, in person
I saw Kamala Harris accept the nomination as her party’s vice presidential candidate, I am again remindful of this moment in history, and how something so momentous would have been unthinkable not that long ago. Having watched Hilary Clinton accept her nomination for president four years ago, and now Ms. Harris accept her nomination, I… Continue reading
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A Teacher’s Summer on the Road; Episode 2
Editors note 08/05/2020: A little something from the Marchives. I wrote this some six years ago, and today I ran across it again. Interesting to note how times have changed, and how two worlds (business, teaching) I once thought so dissimilar are now decidedly…not. Random (like the weather) thoughts. Tattoos are all the rage. Personally,… Continue reading
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Our times
We the People know not of what we speak or of what the ubiquitous ‘others’ say, mean We the People have become a nation of naysayers with little rationale we deny climates, pandemics, others not like us who do not exist who do not deserve who do not conform who do not Our scientists, ridiculed… Continue reading
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He had it in the bag
A true tale of romance, in time for Valentine’s Day… I spent the bulk of my thirties working at the Holiday Inn Metrodome in Minneapolis. The 260-room hotel was a very nice, well-run property right off the edge of downtown, and along with the usual array of business travelers and sports fans, it’s setting in… Continue reading
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Royally misunderstood
Lots of hand-wringing and consternation about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex ‘stepping back’ from royal duties and relocating to ‘North America’ and most all of the vitriol is directed at Meghan Markle, the commoner, who has been the target of all sorts of vile, racist, reporting about her parentage and past. While I am… Continue reading