In case you didn’t see these on Facebook, here are some photos I took this morning of the garden next to our driveway. It’s coming back really nicely after being totally destroyed a couple of years ago in a huge hailstorm. This used to be just a big pile of weeds that Pete hated to [...]
Archive | April, 2010
This Blaze of Growing
Pete has gone trout fishing in southeastern Minnesota for years on the day the season opens in April. (Other species like walleye and bass don’t open until May). There is a special place that I don’t dare share where the brook trout are plentiful and camping is close by. In previous years, he and his [...]
Shakespeare at the Guthrie: Macbeth
Over the Easter weekend, Pete and I were pleased to host visiting Michigan relatives. The occasion was a milestone birthday for my cousin, Joan. Her dad, my Uncle Jack, who is in his mid-eighties, wanted to come to Minneapolis, too. (We wrote about Jack’s neck of the woods here, and introduced you to him and [...]
Spring is Early in Minnesota
This spring is the earliest I can remember of the 26 or so I’ve experienced in Minnesota. It has come quickly and continues to advance at a breathtaking pace. Pete’s wager on ice out (there’s an annual betting pool based on the “official” date area lakes are declared ice free every spring) was too late [...]
Victory in the Scabbard
Lori Hoeck, with whom I co-authored The Narcissist: A User’s Guide, has a wonderful guest post up over at Saya No Uchi, entitled More Than a Hobby: The Martial Arts Lifestyle. Lori’s post describes the flow one can achieve when martial arts principles are interwoven in daily living. Lest you think this might be all [...]
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Peter and Betsy Wuebker are location-independent professionals who share what they know about travel, simplicity and integrating work with life. 