Taking It to the Streets

It took an invitation from a friend for us to do it. Last week, Dwight and I found ourselves picking up trash from a main drag that runs through our neighborhood. All the way back to childhood, I’m grateful for friends appealing to my better instincts. Sometimes appeals to people’s worst instincts are strong motivators.…… Continue reading Taking It to the Streets

Shipment For Guam

Lugged a box down to the mail room, en route to an eBay buyer in a marine base in Guam in the Western Pacific.

West Side Story

Tonight, tonight: explored what it means to be American. West Side Story.

Categorized as Arts

Misaligned Grate

Asked the city to give this Downtown Nicollet Mall grate a quarter turn.

Categorized as Cycle

The Show Had to Go On

When she was a child, my mother was acting up. My grandmother pointed to a little girl sitting passively across the room: “Why can’t you be like her?” My mother retorted: “Nobody is paying attention to her.” She was probably a little older than the toddler uncomfortably propped on the chair in the photograph at…… Continue reading The Show Had to Go On