Category: Life
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An Open Letter to our Local School District
Dear Superintendent Gronseth and ISD 709 School Board members: The Duluth News Tribune article “Denfeld Student Sings to Protest Dropping of Spanish Class” initially prompted my drafting of this open letter. I suspect that many voters supporting the levy referendum last November may have voted differently if they had known cuts in critical programming…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Letters
With National Decision Day looming on May 1st, letters have been very much on prospective college students’ minds this month. Is the letter long or short, envelope thin or fat? Did the dream school say “yes”? Did the scholarship come through? So much riding on those letters …. While the decision is important, there are many good colleges…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside (a.k.a. Your March Public Service Announcement)
The tree of life. I decided it was an appropriate choice for a henna tattoo on my exposed right calf while the left calf was encased in a black compression sock. I limped around the Minnesota State Fair a week after I was diagnosed with a blood clot–a DVT (deep vein thrombosis) with suspected PE (pulmonary…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Treasure
How appropriate that the photos I selected to illustrate “treasure” are not the best quality photographs, but rather snapped on the fly (or, should I say, “on the ski”) with my phone this weekend. I had another post almost completed for this week’s challenge, but it became apparent to me on a relaxing ski through the woods with…
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Sub-Zero Fun in Minnesota
When the never-ending sub-zero temperatures keep knocking at your door, you sometimes simply need to fling open the door and say, “let’s party!” As the air warmed up to a balmy –14°F (-25.5°C) on Monday, just a few degrees off the warmest temperature of the day, I decided the home office afternoon coffee break needed…
Travel. Garden. Eat. 