Warm Places

Accidental shot, Minneapolis, on my way to The Dakota, for Sharon Isbin, Romero Lubambo, Spain, Brazil, warm places.

Categorized as Arts

An Old Lady with Attitude

What is this? Surely it’s not a hat.I came across this while reorganizing our kitchen drawers. It’s a tea cozy, designed to keep a teapot warm.It was 1999. I was in Glasgow, Scotland, visiting my elderly aunt. Her elegantly dressed, equally ancient neighbor presented me with the tea cozy she had knitted.The neighbor giggled as…… Continue reading An Old Lady with Attitude

Naughty Knitting

Posted about an old lady who knitted something a bit too personal for her apartment manager.

Categorized as Living

Playing With a Soldering Iron

Created a traffic light construction kit and soldered parts. Decided 6-year-old + 7-year-old + soldering iron = bad idea.

Categorized as Play

Mincemeat

Walked to Lunds, downtown Minneapolis, and made my annual mincemeat purchase.

Worth the Cold Walk

It wasn’t too cold to walk over to The Kenwood for dinner.

Categorized as Eat

Minimizing Packaging

Filled up with dish and hand soap at Linden Hills Coop. Wish I could do the same with wine at the liquor store.

Categorized as Simplify

Dreaming of Kyushu

This winter I’ll be back in Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan’s four main islands. I will have visited Kyushu three years in a row: 2013, 2014, and 2015. I go back for the gentle subtropical climate while Minnesota’s long winter refuses to budge. Kyushu is a manageable size, about one-sixth the area of Minnesota or…… Continue reading Dreaming of Kyushu