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Grilled Pork Chops and a Documentary
Sometimes I like to wander around the internet and watch movie trailers (reason #462 why I’m a nerd). I stumbled across this today: While eating a classic Midwestern dinner of pork chops and...
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“Let the Great World Spin” by Colum McCann
Back on the beautiful book train. I loved this book and the world McCann created. Typically, I want a book to teach me how to read it. If it’s going to be jumpy, fine. If it’s going to be slow, fine....
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A Fire Pit for Fall
We’ve been talking about building a fire pit since we bought our house six months ago. Work and time and a wedding and sunny patios with cold beer got in the way. Then the leaves started to turn....
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Minnesota Warm
We hit twenty degrees by noon today and rejoiced. The poodle even found a stick within the waist high snowpack. That’s one saving grace of subzero, Polar Vortex weather; even below freezing weather...
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One Year Married
My wife and I got married because we love each other. We got married because that seemed like the next step in life. We got married because we could. (Thank you Iowa and Minnesota) Like a good modern...
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A Poodle Kills a Cicada
Seventeen years ago a generation of cicadas crawled from an underground slumber in the Iowa soil and screamed for months. They flew about like tiny drunk pilots, slamming into humans and agriculture...
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