This weekend was excellent for coffee, tea, and comfort. After weeks of incredibly cold “summer” weather we upgraded to cold and rainy- and I finally surrendered. If summer wasn’t coming to me, I was going to have a day of Fall comfort. I waded through the tide of yappy black dogs that live on our [...]
August 2009
There are some experiences that put you firmly in a “before it happened” and “after it happened” territory. Moments that define how you look at the world. And they always seem to be moments that start normally enough. It was St. Patrick’s day, I was 19, and I hadn’t seen Alex in months. Her short [...]

There are few trips that I get more excited about than piling into the car to make the pilgrimage to Minneapolis. Living seven hours straight north of the city means it’s the perfect combination: a taste of Big City American Life with NPR flooding the radio that’s just slightly out of reach. It’s the perfect [...]








































