The sledding hill below St. Olaf’s Old Main was sporting the remnants of Monday’s minor snowfall yesterday.
Category: <span>Life</span>
I was out of town at a funeral on Saturday so I missed taking photos for the Susan Perry Memorial Walk for Animals. Fortunately, Castle Rock-based photographer Bridgette Hallcock was…
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My sweetie happened to walk by the KYMN studio window as we started recording this week’s show. Tracy waved her in and before I knew it, instead of discussing the politics of Northfield, we were discussing the politics of household chores, triggered by last week’s blog post on Deciphering the paradox of declining female happiness. This toilet-related Argyle Sweater cartoon by Scott Hilburn featured prominently in our discussion. Where were you when I needed you, Ross?
Click play to listen. 30 minutes.
This beaver (same one from June 2007?) was making the rounds on 4th St early this morning by the Grand Event Center. It wasn’t happy about having me take…
We got an email from Scott Kelly yesterday: "I just got my monthly Cities97 newsletter and while checking out the new Cities Sampler discovered that Meredith will be included on…
Doug McGill, visiting instructor in English at Carleton, is teaching a "Journey in Journalism" class in the English department this term, similar to last year with its focus on…
It was 45 degrees, raining, and windy when I took this handful of photos at 8:30am on Saturday at the Palmer Fossum tractor auction. (See related blog post here.) Without…
The August publication of a 2007 paper titled The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness by Justin Wolfers and Betsey Stevenson has created a bit of a media storm recently. Wolfers…
Bowing to pressure from civic-oriented footfall fans, the Northfield City Council will entertain a motion at the start of tonight’s meeting (see Tracy’s blog post for a summary) to allow…