st paul winter [Vision, Past and Present]

I hadn’t realized how jarring it is to see people smoking indoors until I watched two DVDs this month. Barbra Streisand, as Katy in 1973’s “The Way We Were” smoked throughout the movie, including during her pregnancy. And from the land of television, Tim Robbins...

Angels are coming to Minnesota — at least that is the hope.  The legislature is betting on the old Field of Dreams saying  “If you build it, they will come” and hoping it will apply to angel investors and venture capital dollars over the next...

Last Monday I became a parody of myself. I took to the woods with my ten-year-old son, accompanying six of his friends, and some of their parents to Scout Camp in Wisconsin.  Our kids are Webelos, going into fifth grade.  We joined around 100 other...