Ever since I read Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life I will never again think about asparagus the same way. And that isn’t a bad thing–it’s poetic reciprocity. It had never truly occurred...
Read moreTo me, it’s the first sign that summer is really on its way. The bright orange-yellow bursts that jump from the grass… if you are lucky. I’ve had my fair share of arguments as to whether the dandelion is a weed or a...
Read moreRemember waaay back on Meme #6 when I promised that Madonna wasn’t the only choice making an appearance on my list that also made the PMRCs “Filthy Fifteen”? Well, my second Minnesotan topped their list, and mine, too, with this...
Read moreJust one of two Minnesotan’s to make my list, it’s difficult to just pull one of Bob Dylan’s albums into a list like this… I mean, how the hell can you point to one singular work and say: this was the most influential for...
Read moreIt took me a long time to really come to appreciate the catalog that is Bruce Springsteen, I had always loved Born in the USA but it would be hearing Backstreets, Jungleland and Thunder Road that would become etched in my head forever. And, Born...
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