Category Archives: February

February 26, 2025 My mind and heart have relocated to a place three hundred miles north of here since I learned that Northland College is set to close at the end of May. A year of drastic cuts has failed to address the long history of mismanagement that helped bring about these cuts in theContinue reading “The Brighter Pathway”

February 12, 2025 I haven’t checked my social media feeds in a few days – a rare accomplishment for someone who grew up while this technology was taking off. It’s not the platform itself that bothers me; it’s the intrusion of the fraught news cycle into every moment of my life. Even a quick glanceContinue reading “Gathering Strength”

February 17, 2024 Let it be known: the stereotype of gardeners fawning over seed catalogs in the dead of winter is entirely true. This year, I broke some kind of record by putting in my order before Christmas. My previous gardening endeavors have been a corner of my dad’s community garden plot, half of aContinue reading “Growing Excitement”

February 8, 2023 While I wish I could sit in an empty room and write beautiful prose on my laptop for eight hours straight, such a thing has never happened. What’s more likely is that I’ll finish work some afternoon and find myself thinking of a few paragraphs I could get down. (Then I’ll editContinue reading “Common Thread”

No cats harmed in the making of this photo. Only couches. February 6, 2022 I used to think that I hated February, but then I moved 300 miles north and encountered March. A short month of predictable cold, I learned, beats a month of expecting warmth and continually getting my hopes crushed. This year, though,Continue reading “Perspective”

February 22, 2021 “The cold and gray just wears me down.” -Hot Rize I should say in regards to my last post that I take no issue with winter. I’m happy to live in a place that has a healthy four seasons. But when winter offers up its first snowstorm on Halloween (two years inContinue reading “Spring’s Eternal”

February 8, 2021 We haven’t reached the one-year mark for CoViD lockdown yet, but it could be said that my own virus saga started last February. At the beginning of that month, I came down with one of the worst chest colds I’ve ever had. I lost my senses of smell and taste (as IContinue reading “Twelve Months”