In early November I began working part-time to help out a friend who had 2 staff members (in a 4-person non-profit higher ed accreditation agency) resign in a short interval of time. Since I began working in the office, I have picked up my camera only a few times. Instead Read more…
A Different Kind of December Gifts… Mother nature has been giving us a different kind of December gifts this year. The weather continues to be unusually mild for Minnesota in December, with temperatures in the mid-40’s today and yesterday. The snow that fell earlier this week is rapidly melting. Lakes Read more…
A Beacon of Light Hearing dire projections about and now also seeing real impacts of climate change, has sometimes filled me with sadness for my children and grandchildren and all the people of the earth. Living in Minnesota and loving the trees, forests and lakes so well, I wonder Read more…
Recently I read 2 very different books that caused me to think a great deal about the way that we are socialized as women within our culture. The first book called Tracks: One Woman’s Journey Across 1,700 Miles of Australian Outback, by Robyn Davidson, describes the author’s odyssey through the Read more…
Since the political news is depressing (I cannot listen to more lies, racist comments, or distortions), reports of fires on the west coast alarming (climate change is happening and we need to learn to deal with it), and the plight of refugees heart-breaking (what can I say, I feel our Read more…