It’s another Tuesday, the day that I answer my mail. It’s nothing more than my attempt to make up for the fact that while Author’s Den has a wonderful system for cataloguing and displaying diverse works, it has a lousy blog template that doesn’t allow comments. Sorry. I didn’t come here for the blog, but if you did I owe you a little something.
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Yearly Archives: 2007
Saint Paul
Saint Paul has always been comfortable as just another Midwestern city in a way that Minneapolis cannot be. Our younger, more outgoing sister to the west has always had the bright lights of the big city in her eyes, and yearned to be a great beacon out on the prairie.
Not Saint Paul. We see a beacon on the prairie as pointless, something that can only serve to confuse the waterfowl. We have more in common with Mankato than Chicago, more to talk about with Des Moines than New York. Saint Paul is all of these, pushed together, as if it is a dozen cities with one mayor. It’s something like a giant hotdish or booya where everyone is invited to bring their own ingredients.
Travel
One of those many phrases that pass beyond language to take on a meaning of their own is, “Travel broadens the mind”. I’ve never been sure what that means. If you’ve been traveling this week, as many of us have, perhaps you can figure it out.
Awareness
An article today off of Reuters extols a Stanford study published in JAMA showing that giving people pedometers causes them to walk more and lose more weight. The original paper was based on interviews and a review of previous studies. It appears that the studies were all done in the US, and thus the findings might be entirely cultural, but it’s not a new observation.
Two Places Together
Tuesday is mail day, and I don’t have a lot of quotes to give you. I had some wonderful letters on my story of the Saint Paul Christmas tree being dragged down West Seventh, but modesty prevents me from posting them here. I save this space for the provocative leaning towards nasty, and I just haven’t gotten many of those lately.
Barataria - The work of Erik Hare 